There is no good place to have an outbreak of ebola, but given the choice, almost anywhere would be better than North Kivu. Now the 33-year-old Dubliner had to head up an effort to help contain the outbreak and, crucially, stop it from reaching Goma. “We’re beside Lake Kivu which is shared with Rwanda and there are fishermen moving around it all the time. “People can be of the view too that some disease or other is going to get me so what does it matter if it’s ebola? “It’s also hard to convince people to come to an ebola clinic because they see it as the place you don’t come home from.

Source: Irish Examiner February 21, 2019 00:00 UTC