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More than 5,000 people have died in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to reports from three international news organisations. Sky News said the figure was based on government data.
Handelsblatt reported that more than 10,000 Ebola cases had been recorded in the country before the death toll crossed 5,000. The supplied reports do not establish an exact case count or exact number of deaths.
Al Jazeera reported that authorities were struggling to find a way to control the outbreak. Its summary also stated that no approved treatments or vaccines were available, a characterization not independently supported by the other supplied sources.
The available reports identify the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the affected country but do not specify which areas are involved. They also provide threshold figures rather than a precise chronology for when the death toll passed 5,000.