An Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has surpassed 500 suspected cases, WHO’s top official said Tuesday.Of those suspected cases, 130 people have died, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, noted in an update.

About 246 suspected cases & 65 deaths have been reported mainly in Mongbwalu and Rwampara health zones in Ituri province, near the Ugandan border.

Some 88 people have died from the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever in the DR Congo, with one death in Uganda, and at least 336 suspected cases.