Ebola cases in DR Congo surpass 10,000 in fastest-growing outbreak

Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have surpassed 10,000 as the outbreak continues to spread across the country and beyond its borders. Government data released on Tuesday put confirmed cases at 10,060 and deaths at 4,887. It is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in the country’s history and nearly half of the 10,060 confirmed to have the virus have died, according to data from the DRC’s Ministry of Public Health. That also makes it the deadliest outbreak of the disease in the country’s history.