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Ebola in the DRC has claimed over 600 lives—just three days after hitting 500—amid a surge of 1,700+ confirmed cases and a 34% fatality rate. The outbreak has now reached Uganda, with two deaths and 17 recoveries among 20 cases. Security chaos, population movement, and weak health systems are crippling containment efforts, while humanitarian needs for food, protection, and disease control grow. Treatment centers are scaling up, testing capacity has soared, and contact tracing continues—but follow-up rates remain low. WHO is urgently seeking funding, as ongoing conflict threatens further displacement and response delays.

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