The true number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo is at least double, and possibly four times, the official tally, the World Health Organization's emergencies chief said on Tuesday. Official figures say the fever has infected nearly 2,000 people since mid-May.
"We think, with some of our support and modelling, the scale of the outbreak is at least two to four times the number of cases we are finding," Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, executive director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, told reporters in Geneva after a visit to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
