Congo Ebola outbreak outpacing response, says WHO chief
The world's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak is spreading quicker than efforts to fight it, the head of the WHO said.
6 Aug 00:51 · RTE.ie
DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak outpaces response as health workers strike over pay
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic ⁠of Congo is spreading faster than efforts to fight it, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday. Families said many frontline workers in Ituri…
6 Aug 08:43 · France 24
WHO calls for 'intensified' response as DR Congo Ebola cases near 4,000
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ebola outbreak is spreading, with the number of infections rising rapidly. Declared in mid-May, this seventeenth Ebola outbreak has already claimed more than…
6 Aug 10:19 · France 24
Ebola crisis deepens in DR Congo as cases surge in hotspots
This outbreak, caused by the **Bundibugyo virus**, has become the second-largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded and the fastest-spreading in Congo’s history.
6 Aug 08:49 · Africanews
Frontline Ebola workers in DR Congo threaten to quit over unpaid salaries
Frontline health workers battling the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo say they are risking their lives without receiving the salaries they were promised, prompting strikes and fears that staff shortages could undermine efforts to contain one of the country's worst outbreaks.
6 Aug 11:36 · Africanews
Congo Ebola health workers protest unpaid wages, disrupting response as deaths top 1,800
Dozens of Congolese health workers at the epicenter of the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record staged protests Thursday to demand payment for their wages, abandoning several health facilities eve
6 Aug 10:04 · The Washington Times
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