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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 the response
situation." Only laboratories in Kinshasa and Goma, which is now controlled by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group, have the capacity to test for the Bundibugyo type of Ebola. Benjamin Mbonimpa, M23's permanent secretary
situation for Afghans in particular has been more difficult since late 2025, after an Afghan immigrant was accused of [an attack](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/national-guard-shooting-suspect-mental-health) in Washington DC that killed one national guard soldier and wounded
situation, infectious disease specialists told NPR. Dr. Craig Spencer, an associate professor of public health at Brown University and an emergency medicine physician with Brown's Pandemic Center, [told NPR's A Martínez](https://www.npr.org
DRC’s Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba said on Saturday. “This strain has a very high lethality rate, which can reach 50 percent.” The outbreak, the country’s seventeenth, was confirmed on Friday
DRC. "To discover so many patients in so many different cities and towns so far away from each other, it tells me this has been going on for a while," says Bhadelia. "In many cases
situation in West Africa - the worst recorded outbreak of the disease, which killed more than 11,000 people in two years mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. For Faley, the memories of what
DRC, as the virus starts to spread to new areas. Olivier le Polain, the WHO’s head of epidemiology and analytics, said that cases were being identified in new health zones within the three affected