Ebola .... and malaria ....

There is another ebola outbreak in the DRC .... Democratic Republic of the Congo .... with the disease first appearing in a rural and hard to get at area .... very poor roads, tracks really, and with virtually no health care.   Ebola has spread to the city of Mbandaka, on the Congo river, which is the 'road' to other parts of the country and the capital, Kinshasa.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) are working in the area to try and contain the outbreak, to stop it spreading to Kinshasa, and thence to other countries along the Congo River.  A vaccine still in development and licensing after the last outbreak of ebola in three west African countries two years ago, is now being given to health workers most at risk.  There isn't enough of the vaccine to vaccinate a population of several million people.  

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And in Kenya, the rains have been torrential this spring, with thousands of people flooded out of their homes along the coast, and in the refugee camps in the north-east of the country.  Following rains come mosquitoes and then malaria.