KAMPALA, July 5 -- The boxes stacked past the loading dock at Africa CDC's Eastern Regional Coordinating Centre in early June did not carry the insignia of Medecins Sans Frontieres or the World Health Organization. They carried India's tricolor emblem: 43 tonnes of diagnostic kits, protective gowns and sample-transport coolers that had left New Delhi aboard an Indian Air Force C-17 Globemaster III two days earlier, bound for a virus outbreak that had already blown through one international deadline and was about to test another.

The World Health Organization's latest situation report, dated July 3, puts the combined case count across the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and France at 1,481, with 454 deaths. That is 54 more confirmed ...