At least 15 people including four healthcare workers have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization said on 4 September 2025 as it officially declared an outbreak of the disease.1At least 28 people have been infected in the remote province of Kasai, marking the DRC’s first outbreak in three years and the first in Kasai since 2008.WHO said it was dispatching healthcare specialists to the Bulape and Mweka regions in Kasai to help local teams contain the outbreaks. The deployment includes epidemiologists, infection control specialists, laboratory scientists, and case management experts.“We’re acting rapidly to halt the spread of the virus and protect communities,” said Mohamed Janabi, WHO’s regional director for Africa. “We’re working closely with the health authorities to quickly scale up key response measures to end the outbreak as soon as possible.”The DRC has seen 15 outbreaks of Ebola since the…
