Nearly a thousand deaths in the Congo Ebola outbreak, with a death rate of 39.9%
Médecins du Monde has warned that there is a "very complex" context, marked by the conflict, the displacement of the population and the limited capacity of the health system, which faces "four epidemics at once: Ebola, cholera, measles and mpox."
Health workers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
According to data released this Tuesday bythe Governmentof the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there are already967 deaths inthe outbreak of Ebola on 15 May, and a total of 2,423 confirmed cases.
According to data collected by the Congolese Ministry ofCommunication and Media until 19 July, the mortality rate is currently 39.9%.
In addition, 734 patients are "isolated or hospitalized" and 469 people have managed to cure the disease, while the contact search rate is 81.1%.
Médecins du Monde has warned that there is a "very complex" context , marked by the conflict, the displacement of the population and the limited capacity of the health system, which faces " four epidemicsat once: Ebola, cholera, measles and mpox. "
The NGO has stressed that this situation, in itself, removes "extreme pressure" in health services with "limited capacity" and has stressed that resources must be distributed "among various emergencies" at the same time, reducing the ability to respond quickly and effectively to each of them.
Thus, he points out that this overload increases mortality not only from these diseases, but also from other diseases that stop being treated, to which must be added diagnostic complications due to the fact that the singtoms of various diseases in the region are the same.
The Bundibugyo strain is the variant behind this epidemic, whose lethality rate is between 30% and 50%, and there are no vaccines or specific treatments authorised, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which considers the risk of the outbreak spreading in sub-Saharan Africa to be "high" and "low" on a global scale.
The last outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ended in December 2025. This country is the country with the most experience in handling the Ebola virus in the world, with more than a dozen outbreaks since its identification in 1976. This first epicenter was a double outbreak in the Congolese town of Yambuku, on the banks of the Ebola River, hence the name of the disease.
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