Richard Preston,
New YorkerThis July, the World Health Organization declared that an outbreak of Ebola in the provinces of Ituri and North-Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a public health emergency of international concern. This particular strain of the virus, which first appeared in the region in 2018 and hasn't been given a formal nameI'll call it Kivu Ebolais a variant of a species known as the Zaire Ebola virus. As of last Saturday, 2,753 cases of Kivu Ebola have been reported, with 1,843 deaths. There appear to be many undiscovered cases in the region, too. Ella...