Africa: Ebola's Long Shadow Over the World Cup

Africa: Ebola's Long Shadow Over the World Cup

[Independent (Kampala)] On May 30, as football fans around the world counted down to the start of the FIFA World Cup in North America and airlines prepared for the annual surge in summer travel, the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was sitting in Bunia, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, listening to community leaders describe a very different reality.

Ebola’s long shadow over the World Cup

A health worker points a temperature gun at the head of a man in a screening exercise near the entrance of a health facility in Ituri Province, eastern DR Congo. COURTESY PHOTO/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION.   As the football jamboree approaches, a rare Ebola type in Central Africa is testing global vigilance   COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | On May 30, as football fans around the world counted down to the start of the FIFA World Cup in North America …