“Investigations like this ‘are highly sensitive & require in-depth local knowledge, networks, and much caution,’ says Emmanuelle Roth, an anthropologist at the Ludwig Maximilian Univ of Munich who has been involved in past Ebola outbreaks. During the 2018–20 Ebola — www.science.org/content/arti...

EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detectedA remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report sayswww.science.org