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Number of suspected Ebola cases in DR Congo passes 900 as health workers face attacks and shortages

Congo passes 900 as health workers face attacks and shortages Congolese authorities say that suspected [Ebola](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ebola) cases have now passed 900 in the ongoing outbreak

Ebola tensions rise as treatment centre torched in DR Congo’s Ituri

Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have set fire to a treatment facility after being prevented from taking the body of a local man, underscoring deep mistrust and anger around

Attacks from residents complicate the fight against a rare type of Ebola

Attacks from residents complicate the fight against a rare type of Ebola ![Vanny Birungi, a Red Cross volunteer, speaks to people during a public sensitisation campaign amid the Ebola outbreak in Bunia, Congo, Monday

Ebola fears surge on the ground in Congo over rapid spread of a rare type

workers in eastern Congo said Wednesday they are underprotected and undertrained in a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak of a rare type of the virus in one of the world's most remote and vulnerable places

Attacks on Ebola centres intensify in eastern DRC amid outbreak fears

Attacks on Ebola health facilities are intensifying in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the World Health Organization warns the outbreak could worsen in the DRC and Uganda On Thursday, the Rwampara

US curbs on travelers exposed to deadly viruses may infringe rights and deter volunteers

health workers and other outbreak responders may return to the US could mean fewer Americans volunteer to help stop the outbreak, Phelan said. “Any other indications that Americans are being prevented from returning home

Police fire shots in air to disperse angry crowds at DR Congo Ebola treatment centre

attackers demanded the bodies of two people be given to their families. [He told the Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/ebola-congo-mongbwalu-funeral-bodies-attack-9c4237e6ed4e26dff22b242749e37e33) news agency that the hospital was on "general alert". Suspicion of the authorities and scepticism

Suspected Ebola cases triple in a week as WHO warns of rapid spread in DRC

Congo](https://www.theguardian.com/world/congo) poses a “very high” risk to the country, the World Health Organization said on Friday, revising its threat assessment upwards. The outbreak is spreading rapidly, WHO leaders said, with almost

Why the lessons of the DRC’s last Ebola outbreak are being tested again

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

WHO chief says suspected Ebola deaths at 220 as epidemic ‘outpacing us’

Congo (DRC) should take immediate action. Earlier on Monday, Uganda reported ⁠two more Ebola cases, taking ⁠its total number of confirmed cases to seven. In a post on social media on Sunday, the WHO chief

DR Congo Ebola cases rise amid distrust, armed conflict zone

workers have started setting up Ebola treatment centers in eastern Congo. But U.S. aid cuts are complicating the response, according to Congo's Health Minister Roger Kamba, who called last week for increased funding

‘Every health facility said they were full’: alarm over rapid spread of Ebola in DRC

workers in the [Democratic Republic of the 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

Spread of Ebola in DRC ‘outpacing’ response efforts, warns WHO

Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease. “We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,” said the WHO’s director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

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