ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - Congo’s Ebola outbreak rapidly spreading beyond epicenter, health body warns
The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is spreading rapidly beyond its epicenter, according to Africa's top health body
NYTIMES (Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Arlette Bashizi) - How a Driver’s Sudden Death Triggered Ebola Panic in Congo
When a truck driver unexpectedly collapsed and died in a remote village, frontline medical staff scrambled to safely isolate his body, triggering a standoff.
ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - Congo's Ebola outbreak shows no signs of slowing as deaths top 3,000
The latest government data shows Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,000 people out of over 6,100 confirmed cases
ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - Congo's Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet
More than 300 people have died of Ebola in eastern Congo in the past week, according to government data
THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Ebola Crisis Escalating as Death Toll Passes 2,500.
Over 2,500 people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak, according to the United Nations.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak has become the largest in the country’s history , with health workers facing violent attacks amid rising social unrest. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Over 2,500 people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak, according to the United Nations (UN). DETAIL: The most recent crisis represents the largest Ebola outbreak in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The previous largest outbreak lasted from 2018 to 2020. Roughly 160 health workers have fallen ill with Ebola, and 43 have died. In addition, over 260 attacks on health workers have been reported over the past six months, with eight being killed. The current outbreak is caused by the…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Congo's Ebola surveillance system buckles as outbreak kills faster than any on record
More than 2,200 people have died in Congo's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and health officials say the virus is outrunning the contact-tracing teams meant to contain it. Between 60 and 70 percent of new Ebola cases in eastern Congo are turning up among people no one was watching, individuals never identified as contacts of […] The post Congo's Ebola surveillance system buckles as outbreak kills faster than any on record appeared first on American Almanac .
More than 2,200 people have died in Congo's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and health officials say the virus is outrunning the contact-tracing teams meant to contain it. Between 60 and 70 percent of new Ebola cases in eastern Congo are turning up among people no one was watching, individuals never identified as contacts of known patients, never monitored, never flagged. That figure, reported by the Associated Press from the ground in Nizi, one of the hardest-hit health zones in Ituri province, amounts to a confession: the surveillance architecture that is supposed to be the backbone of any Ebola response has collapsed under the weight of insecurity, unpaid workers, impassable roads, and a virus that moves faster than the…Open
AI:The Democratic Republic of the Congo is facing a catastrophic collapse of its public health infrastructure as an unprecedented Ebola outbreak reaches over 2,200 deaths in record time. The virus is outstripping containment efforts, with 60 to 70 percent of new cases occurring among individuals entirely missed by contact-tracing teams due to a broken surveillance system. Frontline workers are struggling without pay for months and are forced to purchase their own disinfectant, while the government cites payroll verification issues as the reason for delayed salaries. The crisis is being exacerbated by intense insecurity in eastern Congo, where rebel groups with ties to the Islamic State operate amidst displaced populations, making it nearly…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Congo's Ebola death toll hits 2,000 as outbreak outpaces every prior epidemic on record
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
NYTIMES (Finbarr O’Reilly) - ‘We Will All Die From Ebola Here’: Virus Stalks Crowded Camps in Congo
There are a million people displaced by violence in the epicenter. They live in dangerous conditions and are fighting the virus with very little clean water.
AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Congo's Ebola death toll hits 930 as outbreak outpaces every one on record
Congo's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has now killed at least 930 people in just over two months, and health officials cannot track where most new infections are coming from. Congo's Ministry of Health reported 2,344 confirmed Ebola cases as of Saturday, with 37 new deaths recorded in a single 24-hour window, one of the highest single-day […] The post Congo's Ebola death toll hits 930 as outbreak outpaces every one on record appeared first on American Almanac .
Congo's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has now killed at least 930 people in just over two months, and health officials cannot track where most new infections are coming from. Congo's Ministry of Health reported 2,344 confirmed Ebola cases as of Saturday, with 37 new deaths recorded in a single 24-hour window, one of the highest single-day tolls since the crisis began. The ministry's statement, issued overnight into Monday, offered a grim snapshot of a disease spreading faster than the government or international agencies can contain it. The outbreak was declared on May 15 in eastern Congo. In roughly nine weeks it has become, by multiple accounts, the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. The pathogen responsible is the Bundibugyo…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Second American contracts Ebola in Congo while working for Samaritan's Purse
A second American citizen has tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the CDC announced Friday, this time a logistics worker deployed with the Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse in the outbreak's epicenter of Ituri province. The patient, who has not been publicly identified, had been working out of Bunia, the […] The post Second American contracts Ebola in Congo while working for Samaritan's Purse appeared first on American Almanac .
A second American citizen has tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the CDC announced Friday, this time a logistics worker deployed with the Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse in the outbreak's epicenter of Ituri province. The patient, who has not been publicly identified, had been working out of Bunia, the provincial capital, and was not directly involved in treating Ebola victims. The case marks another grim milestone in a crisis that has now produced 1,926 confirmed infections and 702 deaths, according to DRC health officials. It also raises hard questions about the true scale of an outbreak that the World Health Organization's own emergencies director says may be four times larger than…Open