Ebola Crisis

Ebola Crisis

Congolese health workers who recovered from the Ebola virus pose for a photograph at the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM), as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, 31 May 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

WHO says suspected Ebola cases drop to 116 after hundreds ruled out

The agency said today (2 June) there had been 48 deaths and six people had recovered in Congo.

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

FILE PHOTO: A Ugandan health worker prepares to administer the ebola vaccine to a man in Kirembo village, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kasese district, Uganda, June 16, 2019. REUTERS/James Akena/

US sends experimental antibody, antiviral drug to Uganda for Ebola outbreak

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. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

New Ebola case confirmed in northwestern Congo, lab report says

Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa attends a briefing for World Health Assembly (WHA) delegates on the Ebola outbreak response in Democratic Republic of the Congo at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 23, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

WHO employees took part in Congo sex abuses in Ebola crisis, report says