
Ebola in Congo: What you need to know
From Canada’s involvement to a breakthrough in treatment, here are five things to know to better understand the latest outbreak.
Journalist and global health researcher
Katherina Thomas is a journalist, global health researcher, author, and writer-in-residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University. Her work focuses on infectious disease outbreaks and health inequities in sub-Saharan Africa, where she has lived and worked for the last 10 years. She was the founding editor of Ebola Deeply, a platform that extensively covered the 2013-16 West Africa Ebola outbreak.
From Canada’s involvement to a breakthrough in treatment, here are five things to know to better understand the latest outbreak.