WHO chief visits Congo as confirmed and suspected Ebola deaths exceed 200 (opens in new tab)

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Kinshasa late Thursday to support the response to an Ebola outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with cases also reported in Uganda. The DRC Ministry of Health reported 125 confirmed cases, 17 of them fatal, and 906 suspected cases, including 223 suspected deaths, across Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu provinces as of May 28, according to the European Centre for Disease Pre...