Inside the Ebola epicenter, the virus rages with little to stop it

Health workers carry a coffin with the body of Rev. Sylvestre Atama, a popular and charismatic preacher who died of Ebola in the mining town of Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 25, 2026. In a remote gold mining town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, medical workers struggle to beat back a surge of deaths and infections. (Arlette Bashizi/The New York Times) By DECLAN WALSH In the cramped, dilapidated Ebola ward, a 5-year-old boy languished on a bare mattress, a tissue stuffed...

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