Ebola -- DR Congo
Take a deadly contagious disease that spreads on contact. Drop it into an area surrounded by jungle, where armed groups vie for control over remote corners. Add a population exhausted by decades of conflict, weary of outsiders, and suspicious of Westerners clad in protective suits erecting camps to treat this illness, camps from which their loved ones often don't come out alive.
I don't think you could think of a more complicated, dangerous place to have an Ebola outbreak than northeastern
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