May 29, 2026
Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe works in a laboratory at the National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 20, 2026. The World Health Organization on Tuesday voiced concern about the “scale and speed” of an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 130 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and warned it could be lengthy. The UN health agency has declared the surge of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever in the east of the country an international health emergency. No vaccine or therapeutic treatment exists for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola which is responsible for the outbreak. Ebola has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa in the past half-century. (Photo by Hardy BOPE / AFP)
The World Health Organization on Friday announced the first recovery of a confirmed Ebola patient in the outbreak raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“The DRC has said that on May 27, a patient recovered and left the hospital and has been discharged into the community,” the WHO’s Anais Legand told reporters, adding it was “the first one”.
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