No cases of Ebola have been detected among passengers on a river boat that was placed in quarantine near Kinshasa, health authorities have said. The confi

DAKAR, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo concerns a previously unseen variant of the rare Bundibugyo species of the virus, indicating it stemmed from a new transmission from animals to humans rather than from variants linked to earlier outbreaks,

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The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the Ebola outbreak in Congo is on track to surpass the deadliest one in history. “At its current pace, it’s on track to eclipse the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.

The first genomes from Congo's Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak point to a recent animal spillover, but are too few to date when the jump happened.

GINEBRA (AP) — El brote de ébola en curso en la República Democrática del Congo va camino de eclipsar al más mortífero de la historia que mató a más de 11.000 personas, declaró el miércoles el director de la Organización Mundial de la Salud.