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Pictures from the Field - Deadly Ebola in Congo

Posted by Kate Sands Adams on December 14th, 2007

Dieudonné Bumba, an IRC administrator, organized a military-style soap distribution, transforming a playground of hundreds of unruly children into neat lines of students who answered to their names in the role call. Three days of this ‘campaign’ ensured that the IRC teams had covered all of the schools within the zone affected by the outbreak.
Photo: The IRC
The IRC’s Peter Biro and Fergus Thomas put together this photo essay about IRC’s response to an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the southern province of Kasai Occidental in the Democratic Republic of Congo this fall. IRC teams were on the ground within days to help stem the spread of the fast-acting and lethal disease, for which there’s no vaccine or treatment. 
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