WHO chief warns Ebola response must ramp up to stem DRC outbreak
Number of people killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo from disease exceeds 3,000 amid response funding gap.
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DRC Ebola death toll passes 2,000 amid fastest-growing outbreak on record
A total of 4,381 cases across five provinces have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as of Tuesday.
DRC’s Ebola outbreak began months before it was officially declared, says WHO
Earlier cases of the disease were wrongly attributed to malaria and typhoid, the WHO said.
Ebola cases top 4,000 in DRC as WHO urges Ervebo vaccine trial
The Bundibugyo epidemic, the world’s second-largest, has been described as the fastest-spreading on record.
DR Congo Ebola outbreak kills more than 1,700 as WHO accelerates trials
The outbreak is concentrated in the province of Ituri, which accounts for nearly 90 percent of reported cases.
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