The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, reportedly arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Wednesday for his second visit to oversee the response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the east of the country.
Tedros first traveled to Ituri province, DRC, in late May and early June, meeting health officials and patients there and vowing to be personally involved in the response. Since then, the current outbreak has become the fastest-spreading in recorded history, enabled by widespread militia violence, local distrust of health workers, and health workers going on strike in response to not receiving the bonuses promised them for the highly...
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