Ebola outbreak set to be 'deadliest ever' as no-vaccine virus kills 2,000 victims

Ashanom Ghebreyesus - director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) - has warned the outbreak is "already the second-biggest Ebola epidemic on record"

DRC has recorded 4,449 confirmed cases and 2,061 deaths across five provinces and 53 health zones.

“At its current pace, it’s on track to eclipse the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Wednesday.

The outbreak, declared on 15 May, has caused more than 2,000 deaths, with thousands more reported cases.

Current outbreak has killed more than 2,000 people.

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo is on track to surpass the deadliest one in history, which erupted over a decade ago and killed over 11,000 people, the head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

“The outbreak had a big head start, still way ahead of us, and we’re playing catchup,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

Congo’s Ebola outbreak is on track to surpass the deadliest one in history, WHO chief says  AP News

Outbreak to eclipse West Africa's Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016 if it continues at current pace, WHO chief says.

The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is rapidly accelerating, with officials cautioning that it could surpass the devastating West African outbreak a decade ago. The WHO said the outbreak in eastern Congo has killed more than 2,000 people among more t

As the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to spread at an alarming rate, WHO warns the true scale of the epidemic could be up to four times larger

The rare Bundibugyo virus responsible for this current outbreak has no approved vaccines or treatments

The outbreak in the east of the country has killed more than 2,000 people.

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo is on track to eclipse the deadliest one in history that killed over 11,000 people out of more than 28,000 cases, the head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

WHO says Congo’s Ebola outbreak is on track to eclipse the deadliest one in history  Toronto Star

More than 2,000 people have now died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The outbreak is the second-largest ever and shows no signs of slowing.

Authorities in the DRC say the Ebola virus is killing faster than any outbreak on record. Scientists say it began sooner than thought, may have been transmitted from animals to humans and is gaining momentum.