🇨🇩 DRC's Ebola outbreak is now the second-largest ever This outbreak just crossed 4,000 cases, and it's already the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record. 1,801 deaths. For comparison: at the same 11-week mark, this outbreak has 8 times more cases and 6 times more deaths than the 2014-16 West Africa epidemic. The one that eventually killed over 11,000 people. Officials are now checking something worse than the case count: whether the virus itself is mutating, because the severity here is "