The head of the World Health Organization has visited Bunia in eastern Congo, where a rare Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly.

The epicenter of the Ebola outbreak is in Mongbwalu, a poor gold-mining town of 130,000 people, in Ituri province, in eastern Congo.

The three workers, who fell ill in March and died in May, were "among the first known victims of the outbreak," the Red Cross said.

Ugandan authorities have tightened border controls with Congo to prevent Ebola's spread. Traders are frustrated as their goods, including plantains and fish, risk spoiling in long truck queues.

A flight to Detroit was forced to divert to Canada after a passenger from the Congo was boarded "in error," violating U.S. Ebola travel restrictions. (AP Photo)

Over $3 billion has been pledged to support 63 low-carbon projects aimed at protecting and restoring the Congo Basin, one of the world’s largest ecological lungs. ・Over $3 billion was pledged for 63 low-carbon projects to protect and restore the Congo Basin.

We are in the quickening heart of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo—where metrics like per capita nutrition levels and water quality would suggest a near-death state of being.

While 330 Ebola infections are confirmed in central Africa and huge challenges remain, hundreds more suspected cases "have been cleared out," the WHO says.