Ebola cases top 4,000 in DRC as WHO urges Ervebo vaccine trial

aljazeera.com·Al Jazeera·2026-08-07T20:41:46.000Z
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This article is not considered a psychological operation. It reports on the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has become the world’s second-largest and fastest-spreading, with over 4,000 confirmed cases and more than 1,800 deaths. The World Health Organization has recommended large-scale human trials of the Ervebo vaccine, originally designed for a different Ebola strain, to see if it can offer protection against the Bundibugyo variant.

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