DR Congo Passes 1,000 Ebola Deaths as Outbreak Becomes Fastest-Spreading on Record

African health authorities confirmed Wednesday they had documented 1,031 deaths linked to the ongoing outbreak of Ebola Bundibugyo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just over two months after the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) declared a public health emergency.

The country first began experiencing a surge in the number of Ebola cases in its restive eastern Ituri and North Kivu provinces in the first half of the year. W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested that the outbreak may have begun as early as in January of this year while addressing the situation in June; his agency declared an outbreak of high concern…

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