DRC Ebola outbreak second-largest on record: WHO


By Shi YuWang Lu

GENEVA/KINSHASA, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become the second-largest on record, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday, as confirmed cases rose to 4,449 with 2,061 deaths.

"It's already the second-biggest Ebola epidemic on record, and it's moving faster than any previous Ebola outbreak. At its current rate, it's on track to eclipse the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press briefing in Geneva.

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