The head of Africa's public health agency has said the core tool for controlling an Ebola outbreak is no longer working in eastern Congo. Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya, speaking during his second visit to Bunia near the outbreak's epicenter, said flatly that contact tracing is not working and that he does not like the outbreak's trajectory.
Kaseya said most new cases are arriving not through traced contacts but through community spread. News accounts of his remarks have placed that share between roughly 60 and 80 percent, and the figure should be read as an estimate rather than a fixed statistic. The confirmed toll stands at 3,802 cases and 1,707 deaths since the outbreak was declared on May 15, according to the latest government update.
