Ebola outbreak in DR Congo becomes deadliest in country’s history

BREAKING: The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has become the deadliest in the country's history, killing 2,325 people, with a top UN official warning of the need for 'speed, scale and solidarity' before the virus 'gets even further ahead of us'.

DR Congo's Ebola outbreak is now the deadliest in its history. 2,325 people have died, more than the 2018 to 2020 crisis that held the record until this weekend.

Nearly five thousand confirmed infections, 101 of them found in just the last 24 hours. These pictures show what the response looks like on the ground, health workers in full protective gear carrying out burials in quarantined areas.

The UN's humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher put it bluntly, Ebola is winning, and he's asking for speed, scale and solidarity before the virus gets further ahead. The WHO's chief, Tedros, warned it's on pace to eclipse the West African outbreak that killed eleven thousand people.

And this strain, Bundibugyo, has no approved vaccine and no approved treatment. The share of confirmed cases ending in death has risen from twenty percent in June to forty six percent now. Nearly one in two.

This is Sara White, reporting for HIT.

Source Read the original reporting at aljazeera.com