At Nyankunde Hospital in the Ituri province of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dr. Charles Kashindi is on the frontline of the fight against the latest deadly outbreak of Ebola.
Erroneous testing ¡ª which targeted a different strain of the viral illness ¡ª meant his doctors initially failed to detect their first case of the rare Bundibugyo type this month, prompting what proved to be a misplaced sense of relief.
¡°We said, OK, glory be to God, it¡¯s not Ebola,¡± Kashindi said by phone. They prepared the victim¡¯s body to hand over to the family, then studied another death with similar symptoms.
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