Rare Ebola outbreak poses low risk globally but worries mount about its spread in Congo PBS NewsHour By: Justin Kabumba Katumwa, Associated Press · Monika Pronczuk, Associated Press 20 May 2026 at 20:30 Anxious healthcare workers in eastern Congo said Wednesday they are underprotected and undertrained in a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak of a rare type of the virus in one of the world's most remote and vulnerable places.