Congo's Ebola Outbreak Is Now the Largest in Its History: The Numbers Behind 10,668 Cases

The World Health Organization says a Bundibugyo-strain Ebola outbreak has killed 5,198 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since May, with no approved vaccine or treatment. Cases have reached four other countries. Here is the board.

By Clara Hughes

An Ebola outbreak that began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May has become the largest Ebola disease outbreak ever recorded in that country, regardless of virus species, the World Health Organization said in its latest Disease Outbreak News update. As of Nov. 3, the DRC had reported 10,668 confirmed cases, including 5,198 deaths and 2,881 recoveries — a crude fatality rate of 48.7%, according to the WHO. The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, a strain for which, the WHO says, no approved vaccines or specific treatments currently exist. Keep reading with Altas Premium. Below: where the virus is spreading, the cases that reached Europe and East