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    U.S. Government Beefs Up Presence Near Congo's Ebola Epicenter

    by Nurith Aizenman Mar 15, 2019 2 minutes
    Health workers inside the "red zone" of an Ebola treatment center in Butembo, which was attacked on March 9.

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has had a light presence when it comes to the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak. But now that is changing.

    , the CDC director, tells NPR that he'll be assigning about a dozen health experts to work in the DRC for a year and positioning at least some of them much

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