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Following an emergency meeting on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the international community to support efforts to contain the outbreak. As response teams raced to keep pace with the spread of the disease, Mr. Ghebreyesus acknowledged that the situation will be difficult to control.
Congo's 17th Ebola epidemic has turned into the biggest in the country's history, surpassing the 2,299 deaths recorded during the 2018-2020 outbreak.
[VOVWORLD] - As of Sunday, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has killed 2,325 people, surpassing the death toll from the 2018-2020 outbreak to become the deadliest in the country’s history.
[VOVWORLD] - The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has spread to a sixth province and is on track to surpass the deadliest outbreak of the disease ever, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday.
[VOVWORLD] - The World Health Organization on Saturday warned that the Ebola outbreak is spreading at an exceptional pace and called on the international community to strengthen response measures.
[VOVWORLD] - Four out of every five new Ebola cases in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo have no known link to existing patients, a senior World Health Organization official said, warning that the true scale of the outbreak could be two to four times larger than official data suggest.
[VOVWORLD] - The US CDC raised its response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo to its highest level on Friday, but said the risk of the disease spreading in the United States remained low.
[VOVWORLD] - At least 30 people have died since the start of May in one camp for displaced civilians in northeastern Congo, a death rate that camp officials said was unprecedented, and, because of the symptoms, could indicate Ebola is spreading fast there.
