Congo’s current epidemic is on track to eclipse the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016

More than 200 people headed for DRC’s capital Kinshasa are detained following the death of a passenger who had already disembarked

New cases have doubled in some hotspots over the past week, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns

At least a dozen facilities have now been attacked since Congo declared its outbreak

Vaccine candidate is a Bundibugyo version of the Ervebo shot, which has already been approved for Ebola Zaire

Dozens of fatalities are being recorded each day in what could become the worst ever outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever

The facility, which triggered widespread public opposition, has been opened despite court intervention

Surgeons from Manchester due to travel to Uganda may be forced to cancel if the outbreak is still active

An estimated 63,000 pregnant women are due to give birth in a country that already has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates