# The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has surpassed five-thousand, as authorities battle the country’s largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak on record. Ten-thousand-300 cases have been recorded in eight of the country’s 26 provinces. The Bundibugyo species is behind the current outbreak, but there is no treatment or vaccine for this strain yet. The outbreak is the second-largest globally, after the 2014–2016 epidemic in West Africa. Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda have also confirmed Ebola cases.
More than 5,000 people have now died in the DRC’s deadliest Ebola outbreak