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Ebola Outbreak in DRC — Health Officials Struggle to Trace Contacts

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are struggling to carry out effective contact tracing during the current Ebola outbreak, hampering efforts to get ahead of the virus. Rapid identification of people at risk of infection is considered essential to containing Ebola, but the task poses major logistical and organisational challenges in the DRC. Without robust contact tracing, controlling the outbreak remains difficult.