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Second-Largest Ebola Outbreak Ended

A health worker feeds a boy suspected of having the Ebola virus at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Eastern Congo.
A health worker feeds a boy suspected of having the Ebola virus at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Eastern Congo. Photo: (AP)

In more uplifting health news, the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history finally ended this summer. Over the course of nearly two years, the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo infected over 3,400 people and killed 2,280. Fortunately, this outbreak had something new: a vaccine. The World Health Organization led a vaccination campaign that inoculated over 300,000 people, and aggressive contact tracing and testing also helped bring the outbreak under control.

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