When Furaha Tikamanyire began to feel sick on April 26, she did not imagine that she had contracted Ebola. For weeks, this nurse from the Bunia Evangelical Medical Center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) treated dozens of people arriving from the Mongbwalu region, about 75 kilometers away, where the virus had started to spread before being identified.
When Furaha Tikamanyire began to feel sick on April 26, she did not imagine that she had contracted Ebola. For weeks, this nurse from the Bunia Evangelical Medical Center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) treated dozens of people arriving from the Mongbwalu region, about 75 kilometers away, where the virus had started to spread before being identified.