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US to provide $50 million in funding to counter Ebola outbreak

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Workers set up structures inside the perimeter barrier erected around a restricted Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) emergency isolation zone designated for suspected Ebola patients, at the General Referral Hospital, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, in Mongbwalu, Djugu Territory of Ituri province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 4, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere
Workers set up structures inside the perimeter barrier erected around a restricted Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) emergency isolation zone designated for suspected Ebola patients, at the General Referral Hospital, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, in Mongbwalu, Djugu Territory of Ituri province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 4, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere Gradel Muyisa Mumbere Reuters

WASHINGTON - The United States plans to provide $50 million in funding to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations to develop "medical countermeasures" targeting a rare strain of Ebola that has caused an outbreak in eastern Congo, the State Department said in a statement on Friday.

(Reporting by Katharine Jackson and Ryan Patrick Jones; Editing by Daphne Psaledakis)

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This story was originally published June 12, 2026 at 11:10 AM.

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