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'Relentless' Ebola Has Nearly 50% Lethality Rate in Congo

More than 5K have died out of more than 10K infected

(Newser) - Deaths in Congo's Ebola outbreak have topped 5,000 as the country grapples with the relentless spread of the disease and cases are recorded in other African countries, the latest government data on Saturday shows. Data from the Congolese Ministry of Health showed that the disease has killed 5,...

Airport Encounter May Have Spread Ebola to 2 Countries

First patients in Kenya, Nigeria may have crossed paths at Uganda airport

(Newser) - The first Ebola patients confirmed in Kenya and Nigeria might have crossed paths at an airport in Uganda earlier this month, African health officials said Thursday as they race to trace and slow an outbreak that has spread to several countries. Both patients are known to have traveled through Uganda'...

Ebola Outbreak Could Become History's Deadliest

It's spreading far faster than 2014 outbreak

(Newser) - Ebola is racing through eastern Congo at a pace that has alarmed health officials, who warn it could become the most devastating outbreak ever recorded. Since the first case was confirmed on May 15, at least 5,605 people have been infected and 2,683 have died, per CDC and...

Congo's Desperate Gold Miners: 'We Don't Know About Ebola'

Mobile workers are complicating health officials' efforts to control disease outbreak to make money

(Newser) - Isaac Batisa is only a child, but he spends his days digging for gold at a mining site in eastern Congo, hoping to earn enough money to support his family. The 11-year-old is among hundreds of people, many of them children, working at the artisanal gold mine in eastern Congo'...

Ebola Outbreak Now Congo's Deadliest
Ebola Outbreak Now
Congo's Deadliest
Aug 17, 2026 10:30 AM CDT

Ebola Outbreak Now Congo's Deadliest

At least 2,325 dead in what could become the deadliest outbreak ever

(Newser) - Congo's fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people and become the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record in the Central African nation. The outbreak unfolding in one of Congo's most vulnerable regions is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever, with 4,945 cases including 2,325 deaths,...

Congo's Ebola Outbreak Is Now Fastest Growing on Record

Country says 2K people have now died as health officials struggle to catch up

(Newser) - At least 2,000 people have died in Congo's Ebola outbreak, the fastest-growing on record, according to the latest data, as health authorities struggle to get help to remote localities due to rebel conflict, bad roads, and work stoppages over payment issues. Government data published overnight into Tuesday showed...

Attacks on Workers Hurt Ebola Response in Congo

Mobs have stormed treatment centers

(Newser) - At least a dozen attacks on health facilities and workers have been recorded during Congo's Ebola outbreak, authorities said Saturday, as safety fears restrict the response in the region affected the most. Many health workers and other frontline workers in Ituri province have also gone on strike over unpaid...

Bad News for Americans Trying to Get Home From Congo

Citizens must wait 21 days in third country before returning to US from Ebola-stricken nation

(Newser) - Americans in the Democratic Republic of Congo won't be able to fly straight home, at least for now. Per Reuters , the Trump administration is moving to put US citizens currently in Congo—or those who've recently departed—on a "do not board" list, a White House official...

US Citizen Tests Positive for Ebola
US Citizen
Tests Positive
for Ebola
Jul 13, 2026 2:00 AM CDT

US Citizen Tests Positive for Ebola

Patient works for humanitarian organization in Congo

(Newser) - A US citizen working for a humanitarian organization in Congo has tested positive for the Ebola virus, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday, as the Central African country struggles to contain the swelling outbreak. The CDC said it was working with the person's employer,...

As Ebola Outbreak Spreads, Health Workers Threaten Strike

Deaths in Congo top 500, with 1.5K confirmed cases

(Newser) - At least 500 people have died out of over 1,500 confirmed cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak, authorities said, as frontline workers threatened to go on strike on Monday over unpaid benefits and poor working conditions. The outbreak has recorded 1,561 cases, including 506...

How Congo's Ebola Outbreak Could Become the Deadliest
World Needs to Find the
'Will' to Contain Ebola
OPINION
Jun 9, 2026 10:10 AM CDT

World Needs to Find the 'Will' to Contain Ebola

Ex-USAID official says it will be 'enormous' task to stem what may be the worst outbreak ever

(Newser) - A veteran of past Ebola fights is sounding an alarm about the one now unfolding in central Africa—and he argues it could surpass anything the world has seen. Writing for the New York Times , Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International and a former senior USAID official, says the current...

WHO Chief Reports 5 Ebola Recoveries
WHO Chief Reports
5 Ebola Recoveries
May 31, 2026 10:50 AM CDT

WHO Chief Reports 5 Ebola Recoveries

One says he feared dying without knowing why

(Newser) - Five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus, the head of the World Health Organization said Sunday during a visit to Bunia in eastern Congo, a city at the heart of an outbreak. "Four people will be discharged today and there was one that was discharged...

WHO Chief Visits Congo, Opposes Closing Borders

Official data show 906 suspected Ebola cases and 223 suspected deaths

(Newser) - The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday visited eastern Congo's Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus is spreading faster than the response despite the arrival of new aid. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed the...

The WHO Said Not to Do It. Uganda Just Did

Country closes border with Congo amid Ebola surge

(Newser) - Ugandan authorities on Wednesday ordered the closure of the border with Congo "with immediate effect" as cases surge there of a rare type of Ebola and as others emerge at home, per the AP . A local Ebola task force led by Vice President Jesca Alupo made the decision after a...

Complicating Factors in Ebola Fight Include Anger

Congo says suspected cases have topped 900

(Newser) - Arson attacks on Ebola treatment centers in eastern Congo underscore the serious challenges authorities face—including a backlash in affected communities—as they try to stem an outbreak of the infectious disease that has been declared a global health emergency, experts say. The burning last week of the centers in...

WHO: Ebola Outbreak in Congo Is 'Spreading Rapidly'

World health body upgrades risk assessment to 'very high' at the national level

(Newser) - The head of the World Health Organization said Friday that the Ebola outbreak in Congo is "spreading rapidly" and now poses a "very high" risk at the national level. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN health agency was revising upward to "very high" its assessment...

Residents Burn Ebola Center in Congo

Officials say residents were angry about being unable to retrieve friend's body

(Newser) - People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and a senior police officer said, as fear and anger grow over a health crisis...

Captain Says He Can't Land in US. Then Came the Masks

Air France flight to Detroit diverted due to unpermitted Congo passenger amid Ebola outbreak

(Newser) - A trans-Atlantic flight bound for Detroit instead touched down in Montreal on Wednesday after US officials refused it entry over a passenger from Congo, where an Ebola outbreak is underway. US Customs and Border Protection said it blocked Air France Flight 378, which originated in Paris, from landing at Detroit'...

Ebola Circulated for Weeks Before WHO Declared Emergency

Delayed detection, rare Bundibugyo strain hamper containment efforts in Congo

(Newser) - Ebola was spreading in eastern Congo for weeks before health officials realized what they were dealing with, and by the time the World Health Organization labeled the outbreak a global health emergency, the numbers were already grim, the New York Times reports. Congo's health ministry reports at least 105...

Deadly Ebola Outbreak Now Affecting Americans

Media reports indicate at least 6 have been exposed in Democratic Republic of Congo

(Newser) - Americans are now among those caught up in the latest Ebola outbreak in central Africa, US health officials said Sunday. The CDC is helping coordinate the evacuation of a "small number" of US citizens "directly affected" by the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, the...

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