Prognosis

Deadly Ebola Virus Loses Its Grip as New Treatments Emerge

WHO now deploys anthropologists, not just drugs and vaccines
Goal is to stop virus transmission by the end of the year

A motor taxi driver gets his hands washed at an Ebola screening station in Goma on July 16.Photographer: JOHN WESSELS/AFP

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By Jason Gale

December 1, 2019 at 9:00 PM UTC

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The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been described as the most challenging in the disease’s 43-year history. Yet it’s spurred innovations that will change forever how the world responds to the lethal virus.