Giving Compass' Take:

• Reid Wilson reports that the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is worsening, with healthcare workers falling ill and the death count rising. 

• How can funders work to improve the infrastructure needed to address this crisis, and future crises? 

• Learn why it is becoming more difficult to address Ebola in DRC. 

At least 10 health-care workers have been infected with the deadly Ebola virus as they battle an outbreak in an eastern province of Congo, officials said, as concerns mount that the number of cases is growing faster than public health officials can respond.

The Congolese Health Ministry said Friday that at least 90 people had been infected in several regions of North Kivu province and neighboring Ituri province. Forty-nine people have died, including one of the 10 health-care workers who had been infected.

The Health Ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) expect more cases to emerge in the coming weeks. The Ebola virus disease carries an incubation period of up to 21 days, meaning it can take as long as three weeks for an infected person to show symptoms.

Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesman for the WHO in Geneva, told The Hill that health officials had identified more than 1,500 people who had come into contact with a possible or confirmed Ebola patient.

Health officials will monitor those contacts for three weeks to make sure they are quickly cared for — or quarantined — if they show symptoms.

But, Jasarevic said, the full number of potential contacts are not yet known.

Read the full article about Ebola by Reid Wilson at The Hill.