The Ebola epidemic racing through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is spreading faster and proving more virulent than efforts to contain it, global ​medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned on Wednesday.

The current outbreak in the DRC and nearby Uganda was declared a global health emergency back in May.

Reuters reports the number of confirmed Ebola cases had tripled in less than five weeks to 1,926, including 702 deaths, as of Sunday, ​official data showed with that number now forecast to having being passed on its climb upwards.

It is the third-largest and the fastest-growing Ebola ​outbreak on record, according to MSF.

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