# Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak becomes the country’s worst with over 2,300 dead

https://mins.news/en/item/24476

- The Associated Press, 2026-08-17 19:00 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://bit.ly/4ghJLdM

> More than 2,300 people have died in Congo’s rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak. The toll released overnight makes it the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever recorded in the Central African country.

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