The contact-tracing gap is the detail I can't shake. Case counts get the headline, but if health teams can't keep up with contacts, the official total is already looking backward. I wanted to hear more directly from the local clinicians doing that work.
Congo Ebola Deaths Pass 1,500 as Response Falls Behind
https://www.dailynewsfront.com/article/congo-ebola-deaths-1500-response-gap-july-2026/
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The story made response capacity feel more important than the raw case count. Once tracing falls behind, every daily number is a rear-view mirror.
And the funding gap is usually invisible until the curve bends the wrong way. I wanted a clearer timeline of when staffing started slipping.