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Congo's Ebola cases top 10,000 as health authorities race to stop the virus spreading to neighbouring African countries

From the Newshound archive · first published 20 October 2026 · last updated 27 October 2026.

WHO health workers support Nigeria's efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak after a woman who arrived from Uganda went undiagnosed at a private Abuja hospital for eight days.
WHO health workers support Nigeria's efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak after a woman who arrived from Uganda went undiagnosed at a private Abuja hospital for eight days.

A nurse has been murdered by a mob in Bafwasende territory after locals accused him and a teacher of deliberately poisoning the water supply with Ebola. The teacher survived only after police rescued him from the attack. The WHO has condemned the killing, the latest in a pattern of violence against health workers battling the world's second-largest Ebola outbreak.

Conspiracy theories circulating in Congo portray the outbreak as a fabricated scheme to generate profit, or suggest foreigners are exploiting it as cover to plunder the country's minerals.

Restrictions on funeral practices, aimed at preventing mourners from contracting the virus, have emerged as an additional source of tension, eroding trust in outbreak responders across affected communities.

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