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African Health Officials On Ebola: ‘This Is Too Much’ (Live Updates)
WHO says the outbreak has 82 confirmed cases and seven deaths, while attacks on treatment centers have let 18 suspected patients flee.
- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus escalated the Congo Ebola outbreak to "very high risk" on Friday, citing more than 900 suspected cases including 101 confirmed cases and 220 suspected deaths as doctors face rapid virus spread and attacks on health facilities.
- The rare Bundibugyo virus spread undetected for weeks in Ituri province while authorities tested for another Ebola strain; attacks on health facilities during the 2018-2020 outbreak killed more than 25 health workers, a pattern Dr. Richard Lokodu says is repeating at Mongbwalu hospital.
- On Saturday, "unidentified individuals" burned isolation tents at Mongbwalu General Referral Hospital where Medecins Sans Frontieres was isolating patients, forcing 18 suspected Ebola cases to flee; Sunday brought four attack waves resulting in seven additional escapes and one patient death.
- Disease denial is fueling attacks as families demand unsafe burial practices; WHO chief Tedros said "there is denial of the disease within the population, with some members wanting to claim the bodies of suspected and/or confirmed cases," though unsafe burials drive transmission.
- The U.S. banned green card holders from Congo, Uganda and South Sudan on Friday, Uganda reported two additional confirmed cases today bringing its total to seven, and authorities imposed gathering restrictions while three Red Cross volunteers died in Mongbwalu as cases reach 750.
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Ebola patients flee in attacks on Congo health facilities, hobbling response
BUNIA — Doctors operating on the front lines of the fight against Ebola in Congo, already grappling with shortages of basic supplies, are now also having to deal with attacks on their facilities and fleeing patients as the virus spreads rapidly. The post Ebola patients flee in attacks on Congo health facilities, hobbling response appeared first on Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
Kinshasa: Attacks on Ebola treatment centres in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) intensified owing to restrictions on traditional funerals imposed by the authorities; the move was amid fears of a new outbreak due to the high risk of contagion due to inadequate handling of corpses.
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