A nurse whispered. The word rattled through a cramped morgue at 3 a.m., a stark reminder that the DRC’s eastern provinces still grind under the ghost of the disease. U.N. health workers, who have been scraping through unclear reports, now raise the outbreak’s risk level to its highest mark in years.
Truth is, the numbers speak harshly: seventy‑five percent of the 750 confirmed cases are still active, and the death count stands at a chilling 177. Ebola’s third‑largest recorded spike flares out of a country that has already endured three major epidemics. Meanwhile,
