Congo’s Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet
- On Monday, government data showed 317 people died of Ebola in eastern Congo during the past week, one of the highest weekly tolls yet as the virus spreads at unprecedented speed.
- Ministry of Health data recorded 5,514 cases and 2,642 deaths as of Saturday; the outbreak has recorded seven times more deaths at this stage than the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, which killed over 11,000 people.
- Medical teams in Ituri face bad roads, misinformation, and unpaid responders, while the Bundibugyo virus lacks approved vaccines and North Kivu province reports a 68.6% fatality rate.
- Congo received more than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine on Friday, and The World Health Organization is conducting clinical trials to test its effectiveness against the Bundibugyo virus.
- Residents like Ramazani expressed relief that vaccines arrived, saying "We are fed up with recording new cases of Ebola every day," as experts believe the virus was spreading in Mongbwalu as early as February, suggesting the true scale could be three times larger.
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Congo’s Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — More than 300 people died of Ebola in eastern Congo in the past week, one of the highest weekly tolls yet, government data showed Monday, as health workers struggle to catch up with an outbreak that…
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Congo's Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet
More than 300 people have died of Ebola in eastern Congo in the past week, according to government data.
100 days after the 17th Ebola outbreak in the DRC, the Bundibugyo strain remains unvaccinated. The authorities are seeking to curb the spread of the virus, a major challenge in a country where workers from different regions are living side by side. The epidemic has already killed more than 2,500 people out of 5375 registered cases.
The strain identified, known as Bundibugyo, has spread more rapidly due to factors such as internal conflict.
A hundred days after the declaration of the epidemic, the Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has become the largest ever registered in the country. Martina Marchiò, medical director of Doctors Without Borders in Ituri, tells of a daily life marked by death: "In these days I see coffins sold along the roads" . According to MSF, on August 16 had been recorded more than 5 thousand cases and about 2,400 deaths, with a death reported every hal…
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