Ebola strain feared to be mutating as cases surpass 4,000 in ‘fastest spreading’ outbreak on record

THE strain behind the deadly Ebola outbreak rapidly spreading across the Democratic Republic of Congo is feared to be mutating. More than 4,000 infections have been confirmed by officials, along with 1,850 deaths - in what's been described as the fastest spreading outbreak of the disease on record. Experts believe infe

Wiza Bondele has been working without pay since the outbreak was declared in mid-May

Democratic Republic of Congo's confirmed Ebola cases have risen above 4,000 for the first time in the current outbreak, government data showed.

Researchers believe Congo's Ebola outbreak began months before it was officially declared, with the true scale of infections likely much higher.

Wiza Bondele goes to work every day at a hospital in Congo with one goal in mind: to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.

Aug 7 - Democratic Republic of Congo's confirmed Ebola cases have risen above 4,000 for the first time in the current outbreak, government data showed.

Congo's Ebola outbreak surpasses 4,000 cases  Reuters

Wiza Bondele works at an Ebola treatment hospital in eastern Congo, risking his life without pay since the outbreak began in May

One man works to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and he's doing it unpaid  AP News

The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control pledged to deploy a vaccine for a previous Ebola strain in the current DRC outbreak, with test cases indicated a potentially live-saving level of protection.

The world's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has killed 1,751 people in DR Congo.

Cases have passed 4,000 and health watchdog plans to go door to door to find patients in major response escalation The virus causing a massive outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be mutating, health officials fear, as confirmed cases pass 4,000. Africa’s public health watchdog said the time

New reported cases of Ebola are outpacing the response capabilities from international health partners, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official said this week.  WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the “outbreak is spreading faster than our scale up of the response” in a statement shared on socia

DR Congo has recorded nearly 4,000 confirmed cases of Ebola and over 1,800 deaths, as the epidemic resurges. The country is experiencing the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.

This outbreak, caused by the **Bundibugyo virus**, has become the second-largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded and the fastest-spreading in Congo’s history.

The Ebola epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to surpass 4,000 cases this week and has been described as the fastest spreading on record since it was officially declared in May.

Health officials say the current epidemic is spreading five times faster than previous outbreaks did at this stage.

Ebola has killed more than 1,700 people in eastern Congo in what has become the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease.

As of Tuesday, 3,802 cases had been recorded, with 1,707 deaths, according to the latest government update.

Results may be months away, but efforts are advancing towards enhanced treatment and the world’s first vaccine for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday as deaths and cases rise in the largest ever outbreak on record in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Ebola kills 1,700 in eastern Congo as the fastest-growing outbreak surges  Toronto Star