Georgia Howe

and traditional burial practices continue to hamper containment efforts.

Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham is here now with more.

So Megan, a lot of listeners may remember the last major outbreak was about 10 or 12 years ago.

It was the largest on record.

It caused almost 30,000 infections and about 11,000 deaths over the course of two years.

So how big is this current outbreak and where is it concentrated?

Yeah, Georgia.

So it's centered on the Democratic Republic of Congo, as you said, and World Health Organization officials are calling this the third largest Ebola outbreak in history.

So going by the latest figures, there have been over 900 suspected cases there with around 220 suspected deaths from Ebola.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is saying that his top concern is ensuring that Ebola does not make it into the U.S.,

So this is a rare strain of Ebola and we currently don't have a vaccine for it.

And then there's growing concern here because this rare Ebola strain has now spread to other provinces and neighboring Uganda.

And the World Health Organization is warning that the epidemic is effectively outpacing all of these efforts to contain it.

Right.

And one of the more disturbing things I've seen is there are reports that infected patients are actually fleeing the treatment facilities.

Why are they doing that?

Yeah.

So Eastern Congo is already plagued by armed militias and a lot of political instability.

And post-COVID, there's also a very deep distrust of government health care workers, particularly those affiliated with international organizations.

And that instability is directly interfering with these efforts to contain the virus.