Ebola outbreak kills more than 5,300 people in DR Congo

The death toll from the latest Ebola outbreak in Africa has surpassed 5,300, with the majority of cases recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). The DRC is the epicentre of the latest outbreak, having declared its 17th – and largest – Ebola outbreak in mid-May. According to data from the Africa CDC on Monday, the outbreak has killed 5,376 people: 5,372 in the DRC and two each in Kenya and Uganda. The Bundibugyo strain of the virus, responsible for the current outbreak, has infected some 10,444 people in the DRC, Uganda and Kenya, with a death rate of more than 50 percent. The virus has crossed borders several times in recent months.