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The isolation area of the Mangina Ebola treatment centre in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, in September 2019.

Ebola epidemic in DR Congo reaches 10,990 confirmed cases and 5,354 deaths, hitting 67 of the country's 178 health zones

A junction between the Ngezi and Lumumba neighbourhoods, in the Mbunya commune of Bunia, capital of Ituri province, in 2022.

DR Congo launches the Tumaini vaccine trial in the country's largest Ebola outbreak, with 9,704 cases and 4,687 deaths

Colourised electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (in blue) budding from an infected cell, made at a NIAID laboratory in the United States in 2014.

Nigeria confirms its first Ebola case in 12 years, and tests point to the same strain as the Congo outbreak

A colourised electron micrograph of an Ebola virus particle, produced at the laboratories of the CDC, the United States public health agency.

Kenya confirms a third Ebola case, a 65-year-old woman who had been in quarantine since 6 October

Health workers in personal protective equipment at an Ebola treatment unit run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Liberia in 2014.

Ebola has killed more than 3,700 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the WHO sees the first signs of a retreat