Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak becomes the country’s worst with over 2,300 dead
Headline as filed by AP Top News. PageNews does not write or rewrite headlines.
PageNews Brief
3 publishers have filed 3 reports that PageNews has grouped as one story.
The earliest report detected came from AP Top News at 13:53 UTC on 17 August 2026, and the most recent from Sky News World 4 days later.
1 of them had filed within an hour of the first report; coverage reached 3 publishers over 4 days.
Congo Ebola is named in all 3 reports.
The coverage is filed under Health. Each publisher's own headline, summary and link is below.
Order of coverage
- first AP Top News — earliest coverage indexed by PageNews
- +6h Medical Xpress
- +4d Sky News World — latest publisher to join
Names shared across publishers
Details appearing in more than one publisher
Wording appearing in 2 or more publishers’ own summaries, with the number that used each. It records that they used the same words, not that anything is confirmed.
Compiled by PageNews from the reports listed below — counts, timestamps and wording taken from them. No publisher wrote this section.
Coverage from 3 publishers
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AP Top News
Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak becomes the country’s worst with over 2,300 dead
A health worker sprays disinfectant in a freshly dug grave for the body of Jacques Lobo Dhena, who died of Ebola, in Bunia, Ituri province, eastern Congo, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Dieudonne
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Medical Xpress
Congo's fast-moving Ebola outbreak becomes the country's worst with over 2,300 dead
Congo's fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people and become the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record in the Central African nation.
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Sky News World
More than 2,500 dead in DR Congo Ebola outbreak, UN says
More than 2,500 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to a UN coordinator who says it's spreading to an area larger than France.
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How the coverage developed
- first AP Top News coverage detected Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak becomes the country’s worst with over 2,300 dead
- +6h Medical Xpress coverage detected Congo's fast-moving Ebola outbreak becomes the country's worst with over 2,300 dead
- +4d Sky News World coverage detected More than 2,500 dead in DR Congo Ebola outbreak, UN says
Coverage analysis
PageNews compared 3 reports of this event against health measures. Each score describes the language one report used, not whether it was right.
What each report emphasised
- Medical Xpress more urgency than the other reports here
- AP Top News more institutional focus than the other reports here
Where the reports diverged most
Measured by PageNews from the headline and the publisher’s own summary, not from the full articles. Scores describe word choice and emphasis; the percentage beside each is confidence, which is separate from the score and lower when there was less text to read. How this is measured.
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