Inside Ebola’s raging epicentre, little can stop the virus
by Declan Walsh · Australian Financial ReviewDeclan Walsh
Jun 1, 2026 – 4.00pm
In the cramped, dilapidated Ebola ward, a five-year-old boy languished on a bare mattress, a tissue stuffed into his nose to stanch the incessant bleeding. His father stood over him, eyes clouded with worry.
A few beds away lay the body of Christiane Bahati, 21, who had died seven hours earlier but had not yet been taken away. Her shoes were still tucked under the bed, her wailing relatives gathered outside the ward doors.
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