Ebola Outbreak Now 3rd Largest Recorded, 'spreading Rapidly'

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The Ebola outbreak erupting from the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to escalate wildly, with cases nearing 750, deaths reported at 177, and around 1,400 contacts now being traced, the World Health Organization reported in a press briefing Friday.

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The head of the World Health Organization said Friday that the Ebola outbreak in Congo is "spreading rapidly" and now poses a "very high" risk at the national level.

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-- The Associated Press (@apnews.com) 11:30 AM Â· May 22, 2026

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... A revised WHO assessment has moved the risk level from "high" to "very high" at the national level, while risk remains "high" at the regional level and "low" at the global level, Tedros added.

WHO officials have acknowledged that a delay in detecting and responding to the outbreak enabled it to balloon, and that they are now racing to get ahead of the virus.

WHO representative Dr. Anne Ancia spoke during today's briefing from the DRC, saying that when officials got to the area, they found the virus was "already rampant and silently disseminating for a few weeks already." In the outbreak investigation so far, the earliest known suspected case was in a health worker, who developed symptoms on April 24 in Bunia, the capital city of Ituri. WHO only got word of a potential outbreak on May 5, with news of a cluster of deadly, unidentified infections that led to the deaths of four health workers. By the time a WHO team arrived, there were already 80 cases.

"Now we are sprinting behind [the virus] so that we can really try to control this outbreak, and because it is still transmitting for the time being, yes, the number [of cases] will keep rising for some time until we are really able to put all the response operation in place," she said. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-23 03:32 PM | Reply

Ebola outbreak now 3rd largest recorded, "spreading rapidly"

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--Boaz

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-23 05:31 PM | Reply

Thank God the illegal DOGE morons gutting USAID and brain worm Kennedy and his dips*&^ lackeys destroyed the CDC while also pulling us out of WHO.

Who knows, maybe an Ebola outbreak reaching the US is what's needed for the MAGA dumbf*&^s to either bite the dust or learn they need to STFU because they don't understand s*&^ about how the world works.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-23 06:37 PM | Reply

@#3 ... Thank God the illegal DOGE morons gutting USAID and brain worm Kennedy and his dips*&^ lackeys destroyed the CDC while also pulling us out of WHO. ...

A blunt, yet succinct, summary. thx.

... Who knows, maybe an Ebola outbreak reaching the US is what's needed for the MAGA dumbf*&^s to ...

I remain to be convinced that MAGA is capable of changing its worship of Pres trump.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-23 06:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#1 ... "Now we are sprinting behind [the virus] so that we can really try to control this outbreak, ...

Yeah, tha is the sentence that caught my attention.

The WHO apparently is saying that it is trying to catch up with the spread of the virus.

How is that A Good Thing?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-23 11:42 PM | Reply

Currently under Trumpanzee's direction... research is being done with IV bags full of bleach and infused with microdrones emitting ultraviolet rays specifically targeting the virus... so there is nothing to worry about... at least... while living in Trumpanzee's imaginary future.

The Epstien files please.

#6 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-05-24 06:49 AM | Reply

#3 good summary.

#7 | Posted by bat4255 at 2026-05-24 07:21 AM | Reply