Whereabouts of nearly 300 people with Ebola unknown in DRC

Fears over ‘huge, huge community transmission’ as modelling predicts thousands of cases and deaths by September The whereabouts of almost 300 people who have tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently unknown, according to Africa’s top public health official. The humanitarian crisis amid the conflict in the affected areas means more than 1 million people are living in camps to which health workers have no access, Dr Jean Kaseya, director general of the Afri...

By Kat Lay, Global health correspondent