New Delhi, July 2 -- KINSHASA - The virus has not been slowing. It has been spreading.

Ebola reached a fourth province in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week, moving into Haut-Uele, a landlocked territory in the country's northeast that shares borders with both South Sudan and the Central African Republic. The Bundibugyo strain behind this outbreak, DRC's 17th, has now confirmed 1,307 cases and 377 deaths since the government declared the emergency on May 15, with nearly 200 new infections recorded since last week's already-alarming tallies, Al Jazeera reported.

On Monday, the United Nations Development Programme released an economic impact warning that has not yet reached the level of attention it deserves. Under the best-case s...