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Health workers who are members of the safe and dignified burial team prepare to bury Abineno Justine, a 38 year old woman who died of the Ebola virus, in Bunia, Congo, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

Ebola outbreak in Congo spreads to a 7th province

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Health workers who are members of the safe and dignified burial team disinfect a coffin to bury Abineno Justine, a 38 year old woman who died of the Ebola virus, in Bunia, Congo, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

Congo’s Ebola burial teams battle community anger, fatigue and fear of infection

By Constant Same Bagalwa and Ope Adetayo - Associated Press

A health worker pauses after disinfecting a treatment center for Ebola patients, in Beni, North Kivu province, eastern Congo, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Sebastien Kitsa Musayi)

Schools reopen in Congo’s Ebola epicenter despite concerns from parents and teachers

By Constant Same Bagalwa - Associated Press

Parents who came for their children's school resumption sit inside an office of a school in Ituri province, eastern Congo, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Constant Same Bagalwa)

Parents and teachers in Congo urge delay of school resumption as Ebola outbreak rages on

By Constant Same Bagalwa and Ope Adetayo - Associated Press

People dressed in protective gear unload a coffin containing the remains of six-year-old Baudjo Baraka Jules, who died of Ebola, for a burial service in Bunia, Ituri province, eastern Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

Congo’s Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet

Associated Press

Adults and children search for gold at a mining site in Iga-Barrière, Ituri province, eastern Congo, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

Mobile gold miners in eastern Congo complicate health workers’ efforts to contain Ebola

By Constant Same Bagalwa and Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

People dressed in protective gear prepare to lower into a grave the coffin containing the remains of 3-year-old Mave Mercienne, who died of Ebola, in Bunia, Ituri province, eastern Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

Congo’s Ebola outbreak reaches 5,000 cases as it outpaces response efforts at unprecedented speed

By Chinedu Asadu and Constant Same Bagalwa - Associated Press

Wiza Bondele, a health worker on the prevention and control team, poses for a photograph in Ituri province, eastern Congo, Wednesday, Aug 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

One man works to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and he’s doing it unpaid

By Prosper Heri Ngorora and Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

Esther Lutula, a 26 year-old woman who is four months pregnant and a mother of four who stopped going for prenatal checkups shortly after the current Ebola outbreak, does the laundry outside her house in Bunia, northeastern, Congo, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

More pregnant women are dying in Congo as they avoid hospitals over Ebola

By Justin Kabumba and Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Carl Skau, acting executive director of the World Food Programme, pepares a container of food at the Rwampara Ebola treatment center in Ituri, eastern Congo, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne Dirole)

The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak is worsening hunger in eastern Congo, a U.N. agency chief warns

By Constant Same Bagalwa and Prosper Heri Ngorora and Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Rubble set on fire as health and frontline workers protest at the Elikya Ebola Treatment Center in Bunia, Congo, on Saturday, July 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Constant Same Bagalwa)

More health workers strike as Ebola cases in Congo near 3,000, including over 1,300 deaths

By Prosper Heri Ngorora and Constant Same Bagalwa - Associated Press

Health workers tend to an Ebola patient at the Rwampara Treatment Center in Ituri, Congo, Thursday, June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Safety fears limit Ebola response in Congo, with more than 12 attacks recorded

Associated Press

Workers at an Ebola treatment center go on strike over unpaid salaries and bonuses at Rwampara General Hospital, in Ituri, northeastern Congo, Monday, July 13, 2026, (AP Photo/Prosper Heri Ngorora)

Dozens at an Ebola treatment center in northeast Congo strike over unpaid salaries and bonuses

By Prosper Heri Ngorora - Associated Press

A health worker stands at the Evangelical Medical Center, in Bunia, eastern Congo, Friday, July 3, 2026, where Ebola clinical trials are scheduled to take place. (AP Photo/Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)

Ebola deaths in Congo top 500 as health workers threaten to strike

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Relatives of Vanisa Anifa, a 6-month-old orphaned girl who died of Ebola, attend her burial, in Bunia, Congo, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Confirmed Ebola cases in Congo outbreak top 1,000 with 254 deaths, authorities say

By Justin Kabumba and Constant Same Bagalwa - Associated Press

Catholic nuns from the orphanage where Vanisa Anifa, a 6-month-old orphaned girl who died of Ebola, was staying, attends her funeral in Bunia, Congo, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Mourners bury a 6-month-old Ebola victim in the Congo outbreak’s 3rd orphanage death

By Justin Kabumba and Wilson McMakin - Associated Press

Kahindo Mireille Pierrette, an Ebola survivor poses with her 16-month old baby, after they were declared to have survived Ebola and discharged from the Rwampara treament Center in Ituri Congo, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

A 16-month-old and his mother recover from Ebola in rare good news from outbreak in Congo

By Justin Kabumba - Associated Press

Health workers prepare for duty at the Mongbwalu treatment center in Mongbwalu, Congo, Friday, June 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Congo’s Ebola outbreak rises to over 100 deaths out of 550 cases as conflict slows response

By Chinedu Asadu and Justin Kabumba - Associated Press

People wait near an ambulance at a hospital in Bunia, Congo, Sunday, May 17, 2026. (AP Photo/ Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)

Congo will open 3 Ebola treatment centers as a rare strain spreads in Ituri

By Monika Pronczuk and Wilson McMakin - Associated Press

FILE - Health workers dressed in protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

What to know about the Ebola outbreak blamed for scores of deaths in Congo

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press