Declan Walsh

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486 appearances 8 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 8 Jul

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The Daily · Why the Ebola Outbreak Has Been Nearly Impossible to Stop · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

It's a really dire situation here right now.

This outbreak was only detected just over two weeks ago, but the virus was probably spreading for two, some groups are saying even three months before it was detected.

And so we just don't know how deep, how wide it has gotten into the population in these areas.

And that's really hampered efforts, not just to treat the people affected by the disease, but to contain its spread.

So far, about 250 people are confirmed to have died.

There are about another 1,100 suspected cases.

But the true spread and extent of this virus is thought to be much, much wider than that.

And I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the virus is way ahead of the response at this point.

Already, this is the third largest Ebola outbreak on record.

And there are groups saying that it has the potential to become the largest ever.

Now, that's a very high bar.

The largest Ebola outbreak was between 2014 and 2016 in West Africa.

That killed 11,000 people.

We're far off those numbers.

But the fact that the response is so far behind the curve makes it obviously much, much harder to start to push it back.

Because of that huge delay, there's so much we still don't know.

But one thing that seems to be almost certain is that this outbreak started in this gold mining town called Mongboalu.

That's about 50 miles north of Bunia, of the regional capital.

And so a couple of days after I got here with our photographer, Arlette Beshizi, we got in a car and we drove to Mongwalu to find not just the town where it started, but also what the response looked like in this place where, as far as we had heard, there was the greatest number of infections.

Well, first, the road to get there was quite difficult.

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