{"id":785860,"date":"2026-09-29T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785860\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:28:10","slug":"ebola-cases-surpass-8000-as-drc-struggles-to-control-outbreak-ebola-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785860\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola cases surpass 8,000 as DRC struggles to control outbreak | Ebola News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fatalities reached 3,901 across the DRC as health workers battle community anger and a vaccine-resistant strain.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Published On 28 Sep 202628 Sep 2026<\/p>\n

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has recorded over 8,000 cases of Ebola<\/a>, including almost 4,000 deaths, amid the worst outbreak in the country\u2019s history<\/a>, according to government data.<\/p>\n

The latest report, published on Monday by the DRC\u2019s public health institute, put the number of cases at 8,067 \u2060\u2060and deaths at \u2060\u20603,901, representing a fatality rate of 48.4 percent.<\/p>\n

Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n

People\u2019s mistrust and anger towards government policies have become a major obstacle in limiting the outbreak since it was officially declared on May 15. A senior \u200c\u200cmember of the ruling UDPS party was beaten to death after raising awareness about the epidemic on radio, a party representative said on Monday. The \u2060\u2060killing happened on Sunday in Butembo in North Kivu province, which has become a hotspot in the ongoing Ebola outbreak.<\/p>\n

The number of cases has levelled off after a rapid increase, according to the African Union\u2019s health agency, Africa CDC, though it still considers the outbreak \u201cnot under control\u201d.<\/p>\n

Several treatments and vaccines are being trialled<\/a> targeting the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.<\/p>\n

The current outbreak, which is the DRC\u2019s 17th, has spread rapidly<\/a>. Experts say weak health infrastructure, the region\u2019s remoteness and ongoing conflict near the DRC\u2019s borders with South Sudan, Uganda and Rwanda have damaged efforts to respond to cases quickly and effectively.<\/p>\n

Those issues have also hindered the government\u2019s efforts to fight the outbreak, increasing public mistrust and anger towards its suggested prevention measures.<\/p>\n

Marie-Celestin \u2060\u2060Karondwa, acting president of the UDPS party\u2019s federal executive committee in Butembo, was attacked by local residents after appearing on a radio show where he discussed Ebola prevention measures, according to the Congolese health authorities.<\/p>\n

In their latest case report, authorities highlighted a \u201clow capacity\u201d to treat cases at health centres in Ituri province and described a \u201ccomplete shortage\u201d of stocks of an experimental vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain in the northeastern province of Tshopo, where cases have been recorded.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization has said the outbreak is \u201cfar from over\u201d<\/a> and on track to surpass the regional 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak. It killed more than 11,000 people, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n

The United States announced last week that it was releasing a further $267 million to help fight Ebola. It is hoping for pledges from other countries to meet a target of $2 billion to fight the disease, mainly found in the DRC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fatalities reached 3,901 across the DRC as health workers battle community anger and a vaccine-resistant strain. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3711,67564,201398,59,102,14802,50,54683,33229,67387,56,54,55,26582],"class_list":["post-785860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-africa","tag-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","tag-ebola","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-humanitarian-crises","tag-news","tag-rwanda","tag-south-sudan","tag-uganda","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}