India, Aug. 17 -- An escalating Ebola outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo is rapidly progressing toward becoming the deadliest in history, as public health authorities struggle to contain community-level transmission across international borders.
Escalating Outbreak and Human Toll
Three months into the officially declared emergency, health agencies report over 4,400 confirmed Ebola cases and more than 2,000 fatalities in DRC, reflecting a lethal 46 percent case fatality rate. Genomic tracking reveals the virus circulated unnoticed as early as February under false diagnoses of malaria and typhoid, allowing it to gain significant momentum. The World Health Organization warns that current trajectory estimates could surpass t...