Disease outbreaks

Ebola mortality in DR Congo exceeds 50%

TASS2 November 2026, 19:41 UTCDemocratic Republic of the Congo

The current Ebola outbreak began in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda on May 15 to become the second deadliest one in the entire history of observation in Africa, with Ebola cases being registered in eight Congolese provinces

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