{"id":4029,"date":"2026-07-23T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:12:31","slug":"nearly-1000-people-dead-from-ebola-outbreak-in-congo-amid-health-worker-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4029","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1,000 people dead from Ebola outbreak in Congo amid health worker strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The latest update from Congo\u2019s Ministry of Health shows that as of Monday, 2,473 cases have been recorded in the latest outbreak, and 999 people have died. At least 737 patients are currently in isolation and hospitals, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4027\">The Top Fitness and Wellness Gifts (2026): For the Busy Gym-Goer in Your Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The outbreak\u00a0declared on May 15 is unlike most previous Ebola outbreaks because the Bundibugyo virus responsible for it has no approved vaccines or treatments. It has also killed more people at a quicker rate than any outbreak on record, including the 2013-2016 outbreak that is considered the worst on record with over 11,000 deaths out of at least 28,000 cases. That outbreak took about eight months from the first case to reach 1,000 deaths.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The World Health Organization has said that the scale of the outbreak is at least 2-4 times the number of cases being documented, partly because the majority of reported cases are outside of contacts being monitored, and there are still localities in the epicenter that are hard to reach mainly due to rebel conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Ebola is rare, but highly contagious and can be contracted via bodily fluids such as vomit, blood or semen. The disease it causes is severe and often fatal.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have also warned that 80% of new cases have emerged through unknown chains of transmission, a sign the outbreak is spreading\u00a0faster than health officials can track it\u00a0even as they step up their response in Ituri province, the epicenter of the outbreak, as well as in four other provinces where cases have been recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Community resistance to Ebola teams, particularly those carrying out safe and dignified burials, has also hampered response. Robert Ndjalonga, head of civil protection in Ituri province, said some communities have refused to allow burial teams to operate as they seek traditional burials, increasing the risk of further transmission.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest challenge remains resistance from, or outright refusal by, some communities to accept response teams,\u201d Ndjalonga said. \u201cOn several occasions, burial teams have had to be escorted by security forces to ensure that safe and dignified burials could be carried out without incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shortages of burial supplies have delayed responses to reported deaths, while some affected health zones still lack operational burial teams, Ndjalonga said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4022\">As Washington panics about Chinese AI, Jensen Huang says open-source models like Kimi are \u2018excellent\u2019 and should be embraced, not banned<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Attacks on health facilities\u00a0and response teams have also forced front line workers and aid groups out of some areas. Some health workers have gone on strike, complaining that they haven\u2019t been paid since the outbreak started.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A member of a team carrying out safe Ebola burials was recently injured after assailants pelted their vehicle with stones as it returned from a burial in Bunia last week, according to provincial civil protection authorities.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The attack highlighted the challenges facing the response in eastern Congo. In Ituri\u2019s Irumu territory, the local military administrator recently described Ebola as a greater threat than the Islamic State-affiliated\u00a0Allied Democratic Forces\u00a0insurgency and urged residents to support, rather than attack, health workers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Africa health summit in Ghana on Tuesday, Dr. Jean Kaseya, the Director-General of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, called for intensified efforts to slow the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we do not stop this outbreak today, it could become one of the worst Ebola outbreaks the world has ever documented,\u201d Kaseya said.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 9% of expected contacts from confirmed cases are currently being monitored, far below the level needed to contain the outbreak, according to Africa CDC. More than 60% of deaths are occurring in the community before patients reach care.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pierre Akilimali, the Ebola response incident manager at the National Public Health Institute of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, said the high number of community deaths suggests many infections are not being detected or isolated in time, allowing the virus to continue spreading.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4020\">OpenAI\u2019s rogue hacking incident was a warning shot. Will it be a wake-up call to finally create AI safety regulation?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare workers in Congo have faced local resistance, unpaid labor, and physical assault during the declared fastest Ebola outbreak in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ebola"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nearly 1,000 people dead from Ebola outbreak in Congo amid health worker strike - Cross Country Moving Team<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4029\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nearly 1,000 people dead from Ebola outbreak in Congo amid health worker strike - 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