The current Ebola disease outbreak is spreading at an alarming rate despite the recent scale-up of response activities by the Congolese health authorities and their partners. Never before has an Ebola disease outbreak recorded so many suspected cases so soon after its declaration. The international medical response must be scaled up to reach areas outside […]
As Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), visits the epicentre of the Ebola disease outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) made the following statement today. Alan Gonzalez, physician and MSF deputy director of operations Two weeks after the declaration of the Ebola […]
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, people have been living through insecurity and with an under-resourced health system for years. The Ebola disease outbreak due to the Bundibugyo virus — which does not yet have approved vaccines or specific treatments — is posing a major additional challenge. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are […]
Following the official declaration of an Ebola Virus Disease outbreak by the Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 15, 2026, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is preparing to rapidly scale up our medical response in Ituri province, in the country’s northeast. On the weekend of May 9 and 10, 2026, MSF received alerts of an increased number of deaths from […]