DRC Ebola Outbreak Surges to Record Pace, Death Toll Tops 2,000
DRC's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 2,000 people and infected 4,381 across five provinces—the fastest-growing outbreak in the country and the second-largest globally since 2014–16 West Africa—with response hampered by unpaid health workers, misinformation and traditional burials; there is no approved treatment or vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain yet, though vaccine trials are under way with results months away; the outbreak began in February and was declared in May, and a potential Ebola case in Israel linked to a traveler from the DRC is under investigation.
