Preventing rural to urban spread of Ebola: lessons from Liberia

There has been an eerie mirroring of events between the ongoing outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the 2014–15 outbreak in Liberia. The DRC has vast historical experience from containing eight prior outbreaks, but the country has not previously had to respond to urban Ebola spread. The current and ninth DRC outbreak was declared by the Ministry of Health on May 8, 2018.1WHO Regional Office for...