By the time Jacques brought his 5-year-old daughter to hospital for treatment, it was too late. Feverish and vomiting blood, the little girl died shortly after arriving – the latest casualty of a fast-moving Ebola outbreak now sweeping across a swathe of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Today, Jacques is afraid his wife may be the next victim of the rare and fatal Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus that has killed and sickened hundreds of people since the outbreak began in mid-May.
More than six weeks later, DRC’s 17th Ebola epidemic could become the country’s largest to date, experts fear, while sharply deepening severe hunger that already affects 10 million people across the east.
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