Veteran Congolese doctor still helping fight Ebola at 84
18 Jun 2026, 10:37 GMT
By editorial@africanews.com (Rédaction Africanews)
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In 1976, young Congolese doctor Jean-Jacques Muyembe was sent to a remote village to look into a mysterious illness and found himself confronting Ebola, a deadly virus the world did not yet know.