Here's what the inside of an Ebola ward looks like, at the epicenter of the outbreak in Congo

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Reporter Emmet Livingstone and visual journalist Arsene Mpiana bring us inside an Ebola ward in the epicenter of the outbreak in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo.

The government declared Ituri the Ebola epicenter on May 15, but the virus had likely been circulating for weeks before then, with cases clustered in a remote mining town called Mongbwalu.

Official figures show there are no…

Reporter Emmet Livingstone and visual journalist Arsene Mpiana bring us inside an Ebola ward in the epicenter of the outbreak in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo.

The government declared Ituri the Ebola epicenter on May 15, but the virus had likely been circulating for weeks before then, with cases clustered in a remote mining town called Mongbwalu.

Official figures show there are no…

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