Ebola outbreak still spreading in Congo: "We are missing cases"

Kampala, Uganda — The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Uganda is still spreading one month after the outbreak was declared. The total number of confirmed cases surged between Monday and Tuesday to over 800, an increase of about 300 since last week. The United Nations' World Health Organization has warned that the virus is still "increasing" in its "geographic spread" in Congo, and experts say it's a race against time to stop it from mushrooming into a wider health crisis. In the epicenter of Ituri province, Congolese security forces fired warning shots to break up an angry crowd of people trying to take the body of an Ebola victim home. Health workers were trying to remove the body for the community's safety — even in death, victims are highly contagious. The body of an Ebola victim is taken to the morgue of Nyankunde Medical Center for by health workers amid an outbreak of the virus, in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 13, 2026. Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images The WHO has said that "intense community transmission continues" in the Central African region, and new cases and deaths have surged. WHO Incident Manager Dr. Marie-Roseline Belizaire told CBS News deaths were still being reported by the community in Congo, and "that means we are missing cases," with the disease still spreading undetected in the population. "One month after the outbreak has been declared, I'm still feeling concerned ," she said. …