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Congo’s last Ebola patient has been discharged, raising hopes that outbreak might be over
The 42-day countdown began after the last of 64 cases was discharged, with over 35,000 people vaccinated in the Bulape area, WHO said.
- On Sunday, the last Ebola patient was discharged from a Kasai province treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, starting a 42-day countdown to end the outbreak.
- Health authorities declared the outbreak on September 4 after cases appeared in Bulape health zone, Kasai province, and Mweka, with 64 total cases .
- More than 35,000 people in the Bulape area have been vaccinated, while the Ministry of Health and World Health Organization set up a 32-bed treatment centre and deployed response teams in hard-to-reach Kasai province.
- The WHO reported 43 deaths and said no new cases have been identified since Sunday, so the outbreak could be declared over in early December 2025.
- The outbreak, the DRC's 16th, occurred in Kasai province, where Ebola can be fatal in up to 90 percent of untreated cases, underscoring containment risks.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is heading towards the end of the Ebola epidemic, which was declared by the authorities at the beginning of September. The last patient taken care of at the treatment centre in Bulape, Kasai province, in the centre of the country, has come out of recovery, but it is now 42 days before the official end of this epidemic is declared by the authorities and international health organizations.
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