Ebola Comes for Congo’s Most Vulnerable Children

The arrival of a sick newborn at Saint Nicholas Orphanage in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo set off an Ebola outbreak that quickly spread among the country’s most vulnerable. Local...

By Bethlehem Feleke, Michael Anthony Adams, Yasu Tsuji and Jon Hazell · The New York Times – World

The arrival of a sick newborn at Saint Nicholas Orphanage in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo set off an Ebola outbreak that quickly spread among the country’s most vulnerable. Local health authorities are now monitoring the children’s home, but at least two babies have already died.