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The Ebola outbreak taking place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is on track to become the deadliest on record, according to the director-general of the World Health Organization.
"It is already the second-biggest Ebola epidemic on record, and it is moving faster than any previous Ebola outbreak," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.
The highly transmissible virus, which causes sudden flu-like symptoms before progressing to vomiting, diarrhoea and potential organ failure, has overwhelmed the health system in the DRC's north-east, a part of the world already gripped by armed conflict and food insecurity.
Aid workers carry the coffin of a small child who died of Ebola in the town of Mongbwalu. (Reuters: Gradel Muyisa Mumbere)
DRC’s fast-growing Ebola outbreak spreads to sixth province
Man dies in Bas-Uele after travelling from Haut-Uele, as head of WHO says outbreak on track to be deadliest ever
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has spread to a sixth province, officials have said, a day after the head of the World Health Organization said the outbreak was on track to surpass the deadliest in history, which killed at least 11,000 people more than a decade ago.
The current outbreak has killed more than 2,100 people out of more than 4,500 cases, according to the latest government figures released on Tuesday. At the same point in the 2014-16 outbreak in west Africa, the previous most deadly outbreak, 755 cases had been recorded, according to WHO data.
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Ebola outbreak caused by new ‘animal transmission’: What that means
More than 2,000 people have died after contracting the latest strain of the Ebola virus.
The Ebola outbreak currently ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was caused by a new transmission from animals to humans rather than by variants linked to earlier outbreaks, according to a new study published in the medical journal Nature Medicine.
The virus in eastern DRC has killed more than 2,000 people of 4,449 recorded cases, making it the fastest-moving Ebola outbreak on record. It was formally declared on May 15 , though genetic sequencing later revealed the virus had actually begun circulating in February.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the current Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus is spreading faster than health authorities can contain it and is on track to become the deadliest outbreak on record.
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