Taliban security personnel inspect a car destroyed in Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province in late December. (Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP/Getty Images) Reported by: Cherry Meigh TimbolNews Content Editor Published September 6, 2026 Pakistan and [...]
Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 2,000 people in roughly three months, reaching that grim milestone almost three times faster than the deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, while health workers strike over unpaid wages and most new infections spread beyond the reach of contact tracers. Government data published overnight Tuesday showed 4,381 confirmed Ebola […] The post Congo's Ebola death toll hits 2,000 as outbreak outpaces every prior epidemic on record appeared first on American Almanac .
Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 2,000 people in roughly three months, reaching that grim milestone almost three times faster than the deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, while health workers strike over unpaid wages and most new infections spread beyond the reach of contact tracers. Government data published overnight Tuesday showed 4,381 confirmed Ebola cases and 2,011 deaths across five eastern provinces, with Ituri province in the country's remote east serving as the epicenter. The case fatality rate stands at 45.9%, well above the 39.6% rate recorded during the catastrophic 2014, 2016 West Africa outbreak that the Associated Press described as the worst in history. That earlier epidemic killed more than 11,000 people…Open
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