Usagevpn.com – The Ebola epidemic gripping the Democratic Republic of the Congo has entered a phase of alarming acceleration, with fatalities now exceeding 2,500 and the pace of new infections outstripping every previous outbreak in the country’s recorded history. Julien Harneis, the United Nations’ senior coordinator for Ebola response, described the trajectory to journalists on Friday as “exponential,” delivering the assessment from Bunia, a town in the Ituri province that has become the operational nerve centre of the crisis.

The scale of the emergency is difficult to overstate. Declared officially on 15 May, this is the seventeenth Ebola episode the DRC has endured since the virus was first identified in the region in 1976. Yet unlike earlier waves, which were typically contained within weeks through ring-vaccination and contact tracing, the current outbreak appears to have been circulating silently for several weeks before its formal announcement. By the time authorities confirmed…