# WHO urges intensified response as DR Congo Ebola cases near 4,000

https://mins.news/en/item/15018

- France 24, 2026-08-06 10:19 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260806-who-calls-for-intensified-response-as-dr-congo-ebola-cases-near-4-000

> The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading as infections rise rapidly. The seventeenth outbreak, declared in mid-May, has already killed more than 1,700 people. The World Health Organization is calling for an “intensified” medical response. Medical teams have been dispatched, specialised centres opened in the hardest-hit provinces, and trials for an effective vaccine are continuing.

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