Ebola outbreak spreading to new patients who have no known links to existing carriers of disease | 10 July 2026 | Four out of every five new Ebola ​cases in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo have no known link to existing patients, a ‌senior World Health Organization official said, warning that the true scale of the outbreak could be two to four times larger than official data suggest. The figures underscore the challenges facing health workers as they battle to contain the outbreak in the country’s northeast, ​which has so far infected 1,792 people and killed 625, according to government data released on ​Thursday. “Eighty percent of the…new patients confirmed are coming outside of known contact lists” ⁠in the heart of the outbreak in Bunia, Ituri province, WHO Emergencies Director Chikwe Ihekweazu told Reuters in ​an interview late on Thursday.