India, Aug. 12 -- Local officials in the DR Congo reported on Tuesday that deaths from the Ebola virus disease have surpassed 2,000, with half of them occurring in the last 20 days.
The current Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo species was declared by DRC health officials on May 15, and declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization two days later.
With more than 4,000 confirmed cases, it is both the second-largest and the fastest-growing on record. Only West Africa's 2014 to 2016 outbreak, which saw more than 11,000 deaths, was larger.
Just three months into this Ebola emergency, the death toll is already close to the total number of people killed in the epidemic that lasted from 2018 ...