On Wednesday morning, 17 May, more than 26.5 tons (or 152 cubic meters) of packaged Ebola-response materials were shipped from Médecins Sans Frontières's (MSF's) Brussels warehouse and loaded onto airplanes, where they were transported to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The packaged materials sent to the DRC included isolation tents, beds, protection suits and materials for health workers, water and hygiene materials and more to facilitate a rapid and careful response to the several small Ebola outbreaks around the country.

Updated background from MSF on Ebola outbreak in DRC (dated 17 May 2018):

The Ebola outbreak continues in the DRC's Equateur province, with one new laboratory-confirmed case from the city of Mbandaka, which has a population of more than a million and is a busy port city located on the Congo River. This new case is linked with the epicentre of the epidemic, the east of Lake Tumba.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, of the 44 overall people who have presented symptoms of haemorrhagic fever, 3 have been confirmed as having Ebola, while 23 deaths have been announced by the regional national health authorities.

At present, 514 people who may have been in contact with infected people are currently under monitoring. To tackle the epidemic and to contain its spread as closely as possible, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is stepping up its response in the affected areas (Mbandaka and Bikoro).