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Ebola

Congolese pastor Vital Ngelesa Lomami preaches and sensitizes the population against the spread of Ebola, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, along a street in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 22, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

Ebola outbreak could cost Africa up to $3.6b: UN

The outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there is no tested vaccine or treatment, has infected 1,307 people and killed 377 in the Democratic Republic of Congo since being declared...

Health workers dress up in personal protective equipment (PPE) at the Evangelical Medical Center, one of the facilities at the forefront of the response to the Ebola outbreak, as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 31, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

Africa CDC, WHO launch unified platform to support Africa's Ebola response

Health workers dress up in personal protective equipment (PPE) at the Evangelical Medical Center, one of the facilities at the forefront of the response to the Ebola outbreak, as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 31, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

Ebola cases in Eastern Congo surpass 1,000 as death toll reaches 254

A drone view of displaced people from the Kigonze camp attending the burial of Ebola victims at Nyamurongo Cemetery, one month after an outbreak was declared, in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, June 18, 2026. Photo: Reuters

At least 30 deaths at Congo camp show Ebola could be spreading fast

Health workers dress up in personal protective equipment (PPE) at the Evangelical Medical Center, one of the facilities at the forefront of the response to the Ebola outbreak, as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 31, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

Congo says Ebola deaths top 100 as armed groups threaten response

A man is carried from an ambulance as he arrives at Bunia General Referral Hospital following confirmation of an Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on 16 May, 2026. Photo: Reuters

How disinformation in Congo is worsening Ebola epidemic

Thermometers are pictured at the entrance of an Ebola Treatment Centre in the Eastern Congolese town of Butembo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, October 4, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo

US adds $38m for Ebola as CDC warns outbreak could match 2014

Demonstrators participate during a protest against a US-backed Ebola quarantine plan on the establishment of a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base that was intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, in Laikipia County, Kenya 1 June 2026. Photo: Reuters

Protests over US Ebola site in Kenya kill two, court keeps block

Health workers get dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) at the Evangelical Medical Center, one of the facilities at the forefront of the response to the Ebola outbreak, as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 31, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

Ebola recoveries bring signs of hope in DRC as suspected cases emerge outside Africa

Congolese pastor Vital Ngelesa Lomami preaches and sensitizes the population against the spread of Ebola, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, along a street in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 22, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

Congo province bans funeral wakes to contain Ebola's spread

A man is carried from an ambulance as he arrives at Bunia General Referral Hospital following confirmation of an Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on 16 May, 2026. Photo: Reuters

India, African Union postpone key summits amid Ebola concerns

Filamentous Ebola virus particles (coloured blue) budding from a chronically-infected VERO E6 cell (coloured yellow). File Photo: Alamy

India issues health advisory for Ebola

UNICEF staff and airport workers receive an aircraft carrying medical supplies as authorities and aid agencies intensified efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain at the Bunia National Airport in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 19, 2026. Photo: REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

Ebola deaths in eastern Congo rise to 131, WHO voices deep concern