An Ebola epidemic caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain has killed more than 400 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where armed conflict in Ituri and the Kivus is undermining efforts to stop the virus.
France has confirmed its first Ebola case on national soil — a doctor back from DR Congo, now isolated in a Paris-area hospital. The ECDC rates the risk to the European population as very low.
The WHO warns that an Ebola outbreak in DR Congo's Ituri province — caused by a strain with no approved vaccine or treatment — is rising faster than any on record, with more than 1,000 confirmed cases and cross-border spread to Uganda.