The fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is leaving thousands more people hungry in eastern Congo, a region engulfed in conflicts and a fight over precious minerals, the head of the U.N. food agency warned on Wednesday.

Data from the Congolese health ministry showed that 1,437 patients have died out of the 3,262 cases, in what officials have said is the fastest Ebola outbreak on record, concentrated in the eastern Ituri province.

A patient infected with Ebola was discharged in good health from Frankfurt University Hospital in Germany on Tuesday. The US national, who was working as a logistics specialist for an aid

Congo's Ebola outbreak has crossed the grim 1,000-death threshold, marking the fastest fatal surge in recorded history of the virus.

Health minister urges people in the country ‘to remain alert’ and continue observing public health measures.