Ebola deaths in DRC surge past 1,300 as virus ‘spreading like a wildfire’
Advertisement “This is an important milestone for the trial, and marks the next phase in our multinational collaborative journey to develop a Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine,” said the Oxford team’s chief investigator, Katrina Pollock. The largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in history killed more than 11,000 people out of at least 28,000 cases between 2013 and 2016, primarily in West Africa across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.That outbreak took about eight months to reach the first 1,000 deaths. The latest epidemic in the DRC has done so in less than 10 weeks.“We must act now,” Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya wrote in a post on X last week.
- ▪Advertisement “This is an important milestone for the trial, and marks the next phase in our multinational collaborative journey to develop a Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine,” said the Oxford team’s chief investigator, Katrina Pollock.
- ▪The largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in history killed more than 11,000 people out of at least 28,000 cases between 2013 and 2016, primarily in West Africa across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.That outbreak took about eight months to
- ▪The latest epidemic in the DRC has done so in less than 10 weeks.“We must act now,” Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya wrote in a post on X last week.
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News|EbolaEbola deaths in DRC surge past 1,300 as virus ‘spreading like a wildfire’The outbreak is spreading at the fastest rate ever recorded and threatens to become the worst in history.ListenListen (5 mins)SaveClick here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharefacebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoA health worker cleans outside her station during a tour by DRC Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka of the Mongbwalu General Hospital in Ituri province [File: Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/Reuters]By Faisal Ali and APPublished On 25 Jul 202625 Jul 2026Nairobi, Kenya – The death toll from the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surged above 1,309, an extraordinary rise of more than 40 percent in just five days, government figures show, as a…
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