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British doctor with Ebola returns to UK for specialist care

File image: Ebola virus, CDC / Cynthia Goldsmith, public domain, cropped / Wikimedia Commons

NEW World · 22:11

British doctor with Ebola returns to UK for specialist care

A British doctor who tested positive for Ebola while working in DR Congo has returned to the UK for specialist treatment, the Department of Health and Social Care confirmed on 5 November.

Source: UK Department of Health and Social Care; UKHSA

Ebola death toll in DR Congo passes 5,000 in the country's deadliest outbreak on record

Photo: CDC / Cynthia Goldsmith, public domain (file image: colourised electron micrograph of an Ebola virus particle) / Source: Wikimedia Commons

NEW World · 06:38

Ebola death toll in DR Congo passes 5,000 in the country's deadliest outbreak on record

More than 5,000 people have now died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, government data released on Friday show. Over 10,000 have been infected since the outbreak was declared in May, making it the country's deadliest on record and the second-largest Ebola epidemic ever. There is no approved vaccine or treatment for the Bundibugyo strain behind it.

Source: DR Congo government data via Reuters; Al Jazeera; Saudi Press Agency