“What we are seeing is shocking and far beyond the threshold of an extremely critical emergency,” one humanitarian official said.

Health experts are racing to stem the outbreak which WHO officials believe started months earlier than officially declared.

In Angola, supply chain disruptions and higher global energy costs have driven up prices of food, fuel and fertilizer, increases felt by the poor, while the wealthy are earning more.

The unexplained deaths over the past month have raised fears of poisoning.

Doctors and Nurses on the front lines of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola response have reached a breaking point.