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

https://mins.news/en/video/15014

- France 24 English, 2026-08-06 10:19 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwhSlF9X3l0

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

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