Indonesia urged to stay alert over Ebola threat

For many Americans, Ebola feels like a crisis that belongs somewhere else—distant, tragic, but ultimately contained.

The Ebola outbreak has more than 900 suspected cases and over 220 suspected deaths.

Yet here in Bunia, at the heart of the crisis, the usual signs of an organised response – large medical tents, medics in sealed white suits and goggles and patients lying in strict isolation – are not yet in place.

The fast-growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo came to the world’s attention only a little more than a week ago and is already the third-largest on record.