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Ebola outbreak on track to be deadliest ever – WHO chief

Source: Sri Lanka Mirror
Category: Technology
Region: General
Published: August 13, 2026 at 06:19

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The current outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to surpass the deadliest outbreak of the disease ever, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that the 2026 outbreak, β€œat its current pace”, would β€œeclipse” that of the 2014-2016 occurrence, which killed […]

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