Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Tops 11,000 Cases as Disease Keeps Spreading
IOM said 95% of cases were found on informal routes as surveillance expanded beyond border posts to track people moving through conflict areas.
- According to latest health ministry data, the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak has reached 11,042 cases and 5,387 deaths, marking the country's deadliest such crisis in history.
- Declared in mid-May, the outbreak involves the Bundibugyo virus, which has spread to eight of the country's 26 provinces amid armed conflict, community mistrust, and a strained health system.
- The World Health Organization backed two vaccine candidates last week, though WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioned, "Vaccines are powerful tools, but they're not substitutes for the proven measures that can save lives now."
- A British healthcare worker recently contracted Ebola while working in Congo and returned to The Royal Free Hospital for specialist treatment, with UK officials noting the public risk remains extremely low.
- The virus has now reached Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria, continuing the 17th Ebola outbreak in Congo and prompting experts to demand stronger containment measures to address this record-setting geographic spread.
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Hundreds of millions of dollars in aid intended to curb the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo are not reaching their recipients, the international aid organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned.
Doctors without borders demanded more "transparency and accountability" from the Congolese authorities.
DR Congo Ebola outbreak surpasses 11,000 cases as conflict hampers response
The Democratic Republic of Congo's worst-ever outbreak of Ebola has now reached more than 11,000 confirmed cases, official Congolese figures showed on Wednesday, as armed conflict hampers the response.
Medical charity warns funds for DR Congo Ebola fight not reaching front
Six months into Congo's Ebola outbreak, the virus is still spreading out of control and large sums of international aid are not reaching the front line, French medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday.
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