The Ebola Outbreak's Invisible Enemy: Testing Delays Exposed The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing its second worst Ebola outbreak on record, with cases doubling every 10 days.
At the heart of this crisis is a glaring failure of a basic public health tool: rapid testing.
The GeneXpert machines, stockpiled in hospitals after the devastating 2014 West African outbreak, are supposed to detect the Zaire strain of Ebola within an hour.