DR Congo receives Ebola vaccines in face of 'exponential' outbreak

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Health workers wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) attend a training by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) for personnel preparing to reinforce regional Ebola response capacity in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid an outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain, at an Ebola simulation treatment center set up by MSF in Kajiado County near Nairobi, Kenya, August 5, 2026. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya REUTERS - Thomas Mukoya 09:29 Issued on: 22/08/2026 - 14:47Modified: 22/08/2026 - 14:47 The Democratic Republic of Congo has received more than 16,000 doses of an Ebola vaccine, as authorities step up efforts against the ongoing outbreak. More than 2,500 people have already died and health officials from the WHO are warning this epidemic could surpass the deadliest on record – that occurred between 2014 and 2016 and caused over 11,000 deaths across West Africa. Dr Muhammad Munir, Professor of virology at Lancaster University in the UK, help...