Ebola in the DRC: Why This Outbreak Is So Difficult to Combat

The Ebola crisis you remember was back in 2014 in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia. But the current one in the DRC is actually growing far faster than that one did. Ebola has faded out of the news because there's been a lot to cover and limited time to cover it, but also because the story is hard to fit into headlines. It's wrapped in complex layers of history, traditions, and systemic failure that have combined to make everything worse. So Chris Montgomery has put together this video to better understand what makes Ebola so hard to combat in the Democratic Republic of Congo.