The size of the outbreak in its initial days is worrying researchers. The next few weeks will determine how large it grows, they say.

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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned on Tuesday before the World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva that “the magnitude…

Ebola deaths in DR Congo have risen to 118 as the outbreak spreads into new regions and neighbouring Uganda, prompting the WHO to declare an international health emergency

At least 131 people have died and 531 cases are suspected in the outbreak, according to Congolese health authorities.