Fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record threatens to become worst in history

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Democracy Dies in Darkness

The response to Congo’s raging Ebola epidemic has been hampered by a severe lack of funding and pervasive misinformation, according to people on the front lines.

August 26, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. EDT2 minutes ago

Health workers tend to an Ebola patient at the Rwampara Treatment Center in Ituri, Congo, on June 18. (Moses Sawasawa/AP)

The Ebola epidemic raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to become the worst in history — amid a response hobbled by a severe lack of funding and rampant misinformation, according to doctors, relief organizations and global health authorities.

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