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El director de la OMS está “profundamente preocupado” por la rapidez de su propagación

El mundo está en vilo por los estragos del ébola

La República Democrática del Congo vive las horas más oscuras: para el virus, que ya terminó con la vida de 131 personas, no hay vacuna ni tratamiento efectivo. La letalidad es arrolladora: muere uno de cada dos infectados.

ebola A health worker monitors visitors arriving at the Rodolphe M�rieux Laboratory, National Biomedical Research Institute (INRB) in Goma, on May 19, 2026. The World Health Organization on Tuesday voiced concern about the "scale and speed" of an Ebola outbreak that has killed an estimated 131 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and warned it could be lengthy. The UN health agency has declared the surge of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever an international health emergency and called an urgent meeting on the crisis. No vaccine or therapeutic treatment exists for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola responsible for the outbreak, which has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa in the past half-century. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha / AFP) JOSPIN MWISHA. AFP