WHO chief: Ebola outbreak in DRC spreading at ‘unprecedented rate’
- NewsFeedThe world’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has killed 1,751 people in three months as conflict, surveillance gaps and funding shortages hamper efforts to contain the virus in eastern DR Congo.
- The world’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak is now spreading at a rate that outpaces efforts to contain it, the head of the World Health Organization warned on Wednesday during a visit to Congo, where some health workers are striking over unpaid wages.
- Nearly three months since the outbreak was declared in mid-May, new cases are doubling in some hotspots, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated in a post on X after meeting with officials in the capital, Kinshasa.
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- NewsFeedThe world’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has killed 1,751 people in three months as conflict, surveillance gaps and funding shortages hamper efforts to contain the virus in eastern DR Congo.
- The world’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak is now spreading at a rate that outpaces efforts to contain it, the head of the World Health Organization warned on Wednesday during a visit to Congo, where some health workers are striking over unpaid wages.
- Nearly three months since the outbreak was declared in mid-May, new cases are doubling in some hotspots, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated in a post on X after meeting with officials in the capital, Kinshasa.
Sources: The Independent, Al Jazeera