Giving Compass' Take:

• The Hill reports on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has become the second-deadliest spread of the disease in modern history, made even worse by the region's ongoing violence.

• How can international aid groups get supplies, medicine and resources to the people who need it the most?

• Here's more on the challenges associated with the Congo's recent Ebola outbreak.

An outbreak of the Ebola virus in an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has become the second-largest epidemic of the deadly disease in modern history as public health officials struggle to contain its spread.

Congo’s health ministry said late Thursday at least 426 cases of the Ebola virus had been identified and of those infected, 245 are dead.

That number surpasses a 2000-2001 outbreak in neighboring Uganda, in which 425 people were infected and 224 died. The worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history began in 2013 in the West African nation of Guinea, where it spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone and infected more than 28,000 people.

Public health experts say the outbreak in Congo’s North Kivu and Ituri provinces has been difficult to contain because of a combination of insecurity in a region where dozens of armed rebel groups operate freely and community distrust of the government.

North Kivu is home to more than 8 million people. More than a million of those residents are internally displaced by decades-long ethnic violence.

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