DRC Ebola cases exceed 4,000 as outbreak spreads at 'unprecedented pace'

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an Ebola outbreak has surpassed 4,000 confirmed cases and claimed nearly 1,850 lives, with medical humanitarian organizations warning that the crisis is not merely persisting but accelerating. Children, who have always been among the most vulnerable in any public health collapse, are dying at disproportionate rates — representing a quarter of cases but a third of deaths. Beyond the virus itself, the outbreak is quietly dismantling the broader health infrastructure, leaving communities exposed to the full spectrum of preventable illness that a functionin