The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday visited eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus is spreading faster than the response despite better-organized health facilities and new aid arrivals.

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has climbed to 260 as officials updated their estimates of the outbreak’s size and international health organizations warned of the risk of further spread.

There have been more than 220 suspected deaths since the start of the Ebola outbreak.

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

If additional Americans contract Ebola and need medical care, they will be sent to Europe rather than brought to home the U.S., senior administration officials said.

The types of Ebola and hantavirus worrying officials are very different from the species identified decades ago, raising new questions about how to respond.

A top official from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an Ebola outbreak continues to spread, is advising that there is no need to panic. Minister of Communication Patrick Mu