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Congo](https://www.theguardian.com/world/congo) (DRC) during a spiraling [Ebola](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ebola) outbreak, according to [reporting](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/21/trump-administration-temporarily-pauses-deportation-flights-to-congo-amid-ebola-outbreak-00932722) by Politico, but experts say the move won’t help prevent the spread of the disease
Congo (DRC) in the past 21 days must fly into IAD, an airport in a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC. Two additional U.S. airport [options were added](https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/announcements/modification-list-designated-airports-regarding-arrival-restrictions) Friday evening: the Hartsfield-Jackson
Congo (DRC) is being transported to Germany for treatment. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday that the patient would be treated at Charite University Hospital in Berlin following
health officials are behind where they would like to be in stopping the outbreak, which the WHO says points towards a "potentially much larger outbreak than what is currently being detected and reported". The main
Ebola, which has caused two outbreaks in recent decades. [Health](https://www.theguardian.com/society/health) leaders and scientists are now racing to understand where the virus is spreading and attempting to stop
Congo’s northern Kivu province, was the setting for the largest Ebola outbreak the country had seen. The complexities of the crisis were not confined to the ravages of the virus itself – they were [intensified
Congo (DRC). The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the continent’s top public health body, said on Friday that it has recorded 246 suspected Ebola cases and 65 deaths in the Ituri
Congo (DRC), the centre of the outbreak. First responders in the DRC say they lack basic supplies, which some have attributed to [foreign aid cuts](/news/2026/4/9/us-led-historic-foreign-aid-decline-in-2025-amid-trump-cuts-oecd) by major international donors, [particularly the United States](/news/2025/12/29/us-slashes-un-humanitarian-aid-to-2bn-huge-cut-as-trump-demands-reforms
Health Organization has identified the strain of Ebola as a rare one and says the outbreak could have started months before it was detected. "This is an example of a perfect storm," says Dr. Abraar
Health Organization warned Friday is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and poses a “very high” risk at the national level. In the upside-down world of conspiracy theories it could
Congo](https://www.theguardian.com/world/congo) have been stark, their calls for coordinated international action impassioned. As the country reels from the return of the [Ebola](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ebola) virus, there is growing concern that its fragile
Congo](https://www.theguardian.com/world/congo) and Uganda scramble to contain an outbreak of Ebola. The [Global Preparedness Monitoring Board](https://www.gpmb.org/) (GPMB) said in a report [published on Monday](https://gpmb.org/reports/report-2026) that “as infectious
Congo’s (DRC) new Ebola disease outbreak, authorities said, as health workers race to intensify screening and contact tracing to contain the disease. Nearly 250 suspected cases of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever have been
Congo (DRC) are concerned about an Ebola outbreak in the country's Ituri province. There are already hundreds of suspected cases, including one that crossed the border into Uganda. The latest strain of the virus
Congo where some residents have protested against stringent medical protocols for handling victims’ bodies. “We can stop this [Ebola](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ebola) and anyone who has it can also recover. But the rule … is this
Congo (DRC) a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday. However WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in [a statement](https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-disease-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-uganda-determined-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern) it "does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency
Congo from high to “very high” as the deadly outbreak continues to spread. WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced on Friday that they were revising their risk assessment for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola
Congo with nine confirmed cases in neighbouring Uganda. There is growing concern this outbreak – which was detected only after it had spread in a conflict zone with limited healthcare resources – could reach the size
Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. The WHO, however, stopped short of declaring a pandemic, saying it did not meet the necessary criteria. The United Nations agency advised countries against closing borders or restricting trade. Here
Congo (DRC) is grappling with a new Ebola outbreak just five months after declaring its previous epidemic over. The Bundibugyo strain, a type of Ebola virus first identified in neighbouring Uganda, is highly lethal