Efforts to protect gorillas from Ebola in the DRC

NPR | By Gabrielle Emanuel

Published June 23, 2026 at 5:44 PM EDT

The staff of a wildlife preserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo are trying desperately to keep their gorillas from exposure to Ebola. Gorillas can get it and almost all of them die from it.

Gabrielle Emanuel

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