GENEVA, June 3, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that the Ebola outbreak confirmed to have killed 359 people in central Africa had a "big head-start" but voiced hope that the response was making progress.

"The outbreak had a big head-start and we're still behind," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva, stressing though that under the leadership of the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, "we're catching up".