- A six-month-old girl, Vanisa Anifa, has been buried in eastern Congo, after becoming the third child from a local orphanage to die from Ebola this week.
- Alex Lock, a communications officer at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, asked people to resist feeling indifferent, saying: “She was a baby. She had her whole life ahead of her.”
- The current outbreak, centred in the Ituri region, has recorded 894 confirmed cases and over 200 deaths, making it three times worse than Uganda's 2000 outbreak.
- Containment efforts have been severely hampered by clashes between residents and healthcare workers, often stemming from disrupted burial customs and a militarised response.
- The outbreak involves the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there is currently no approved treatment or vaccine, unlike the more common Zaire virus.
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