Africa’s Top Health Body Warns Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Is Rapidly Spreading Beyond Epicenter
Cases have climbed to 6,843, and the outbreak is worsening in North Kivu and Haut-Uele as insecurity and displacement hinder response efforts.
- The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is spreading rapidly beyond its Ituri province epicenter, Africa CDC reported Thursday, with cases rising sharply in neighboring North Kivu and Haut-Uele.
- Fighting between government forces and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in North Kivu complicates response efforts, while insecurity and displacement fuel transmission across eastern Congo.
- Government figures released Thursday show 6,843 cases, including 3,310 deaths; new infections in North Kivu more than doubled to 381, according to Yap Boum, Africa CDC's head of emergency preparedness.
- Congo has received 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine, effective against the Zaire Ebola type, while vaccination trials began Thursday in Tshopo, Haut-Uele, and Bas-Uele, said Placide Mbala Kingebeni, Africa CDC's director for research.
- The World Health Organization warns the outbreak remains out of control and is on track to surpass the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola crisis, which killed more than 11,000 people.
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Africa’s top health body warns Congo’s Ebola outbreak is rapidly spreading beyond epicenter
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record in eastern Congo is rapidly spreading beyond its epicenter, Africa’s top health body said Thursday.
Africa's top health body warns Congo's Ebola outbreak is rap
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record in eastern Congo is rapidly spreading beyond its epicenter, Africa’s top health body said Thursday. In recent weeks, new cases and deaths have declined in Ituri province,
The outbreak of the Ebola virus has spread to new territories in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and delays in diagnosis have increased the risk of further infection, reported the World Health Organization (WHO). "From 28 August 2026, the outbreak of the Bundibugio virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to another health-care zone, Kayna in North Kivu province," stated to the WHO Press Service, transmitting to RIA News. T…
6,757 confirmed cases reported in 6 provinces, with 3,267 deaths, says agency, adding case fatality rate at 48.3%
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