Ebola: Over 10,000 Cases Confirmed In DR Congo, NRC Seeks Urgent Action

More than 10,000 people have tested positive for Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), with nearly half of those infected dying from the disease, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has said.
 
The humanitarian organisation called for an urgent scale-up of response efforts to contain the outbreak, warning that the spread of the virus had become a growing concern following reports of confirmed cases in Kenya and Nigeria.
 
In a statement on Wednesday, the NRC said the DR Congo had recorded more than 10,000 cases in the ongoing Bundibugyo virus outbreak.
 
It warned that the outbreak could continue to spread faster than response efforts could ...