Ebola outbreak persists in DRC with cross-border spread risk

The decline in confirmed cases is less reassuring than it looks: continued transmission across most affected health zones, combined with most deaths occurring outside health facilities, points to a surveillance gap rather than genuine containment. That distinction matters for neighbouring countries weighing border measures, and for health agencies deciding whether to treat the trend as a turning point or a reporting artefact. Whether the drop in confirmed cases holds once community-based detection improves is the open question.