• Linda Meta Mobula, Hadia Samaha, Michel Yao, Abdou Salam Gueye, Boubacar Diallo, Chantal Umutoni, Julienne Anoko, Jean-Pierre Lokonga, Luigi Minikulu, Mathias Mossoko, Emanuele Bruni, Simone Carter, Thibaut Jombart, Ibrahima Soce Fall, and Steve Ahuka-Mundeke.
• Division of General. Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 2020 Jul 1; 103 (1): 12-17.

AbstractThe tenth outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in North Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was declared 8 days after the end of the ninth EVD outbreak, in the Equateur Province on August 1, 2018. With a total of 3,461 confirmed and probable cases, the North Kivu outbreak was the second largest outbreak after that in West Africa in 2014-2016, and the largest observed in the DRC. This outbreak was difficult to control because of multiple challenges, including armed conflict, population displacement, movement of contacts, community mistrust, and high population density. It took more than 21 months to control the outbreak, with critical innovations and systems put into place. We describe systems that were put into place during the EVD response in the DRC that can be leveraged for the response to the current COVID-19 global pandemic.

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