DR Congo rolls out Ebola vaccine for health workers as death toll rises
50,000 frontline staff to receive a jab for a different Ebola strain, with 20,000 enrolled in a one-year clinical trial.
![A drone view of workers at the Ceca-20 cemetery, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus, in Mungwalu, Djugu Territory of Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo [File: Gradel Muyisa Mumbere TPX/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/reuters_6a9838da-1788360922.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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More than 16,000 doses of Ervebo vaccine arrive in Ebola-hit DR Congo
The doses are the first of 70,000 allocated for Kinshasa as experts warn of the virus’s exponential spread.
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DRC Ebola death toll passes 2,000 amid fastest-growing outbreak on record
A total of 4,381 cases across five provinces have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as of Tuesday.
DRC’s Ebola outbreak began months before it was officially declared, says WHO
Earlier cases of the disease were wrongly attributed to malaria and typhoid, the WHO said.
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The Bundibugyo epidemic, the world’s second-largest, has been described as the fastest-spreading on record.
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The outbreak is concentrated in the province of Ituri, which accounts for nearly 90 percent of reported cases.
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