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The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to spread fast and has been described as the third-worst on record by the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

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KINSHASA – New suspected cases of Ebola have been reported in parts of Congo that were previously unaffected, the government said, as the death toll in the country’s latest Ebola outbreak reached 600

“They grabbed me from behind and started punching me, hitting me with spades and machetes,” says Daniel Uyirwoth Welo, one of four Red Cross volunteers injured when a crowd tried to open a coffin carrying someone who had died from Ebola

On Thursday, July 2, 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the start of participant enrollment for a new clinical trial investigating targeted treatments for infections with the Bundibugyo virus, which caused the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda

Authorities report that at least 500 people have died from over 1,500 confirmed Ebola cases in Congo

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has risen above 500, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), as health workers threaten strike action over low wages and poor working conditions