Ebola outbreak in DR Congo accelerates as experts say Trump and Musk’s aid cuts hamper response

Key supplies, equipment and operational support are no longer reaching responders at the scale needed, they said.

A hygiene worker helps a doctor put on personal protective equipment inside of a room
A doctor prepares to treat Ebola patients in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on July 13.Benediction Murhabazi / AFP via Getty Images file

Dr. Sam Mbalivula has already lost one of his clinic’s nurses to Ebola. From his practice in Bunia, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s northeastern Ituri province, he has watched the virus tear through the epicenter of the country’s worst outbreak in years. Five of his fellow healthcare workers and friends in the city have also died, he told NBC News.

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