As headlines have tracked the Ebola outbreak's case count rising past 1,100 and the CDC activating its highest level of emergency response, a more sobering assessment has come directly from the people doing the work on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: this outbreak is not close to being controlled, and may not be for a long time.
Dr. Abdou Sebushishe, a medic working with the International Medical Corps in the DRC's eastern city of Goma, told CBS News that he believes it could be "beyond six months before this outbreak could be put under control." His assessment is echoed in even starker institutional terms by WHO's own Emergency Response Lead for Africa, who rated the international response effort itself a "three or four" out of ten compared to where it needs to be.
