Published on
06/06/2026 - 16:50 GMT+2
Nearly 500 Ebola cases have now been confirmed in a rapidly expanding outbreak in central Africa, according to the World Health Organization, fuelling concerns that the epidemic could become one of the largest on record.
The WHO has already declared the crisis an international public health emergency as health officials race to contain its spread across the region.
"That scale is possible," warned Jason Asher, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, referring to fears the outbreak could eventually rival the devastating 2014 West Africa epidemic.
