WHO confirms 5 patients have recovered from rare type of Ebola that has killed over 200 in the Congo

WHO confirms 5 patients have recovered from rare type of Ebola that has killed over 200 in the Congo


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BUNIA, Congo — Five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola, the head of the World Health Organization said Sunday during a visit to eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak.

“Four people will be discharged today and there was one that was discharged the day before yesterday,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during the opening of a new Ebola treatment center in Bunia, the provinical capital of Ituri.

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“Of course, we’re still working on vaccines and treatments but that doesn’t mean that people cannot recover from Ebola,” he added.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visiting health workers at Evangelical Medical Centre in Bunia, Congo on May 31, 2026. AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa
The WHO confirmed that five patients have recovered from the rare type of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa

The WHO said Friday a patient had recovered from the Bundibugyo virus,

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