NGO Warns Ebola Epidemic Is 'Outpacing' Response Efforts in DRC
MSF said testing and surveillance gaps are leaving the true scale unclear as confirmed cases reach 782 and deaths climb to 181, WHO said.
- Doctors Without Borders warned Monday that "dangerous gaps" remain in efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 180 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province.
- Most treatment centres in Ituri province are overwhelmed, with Kate White, MSF's emergency medical coordinator in the DRC, reporting that "many of our patients arrive at a late stage of the disease."
- The World Health Organization confirmed 782 cases and 181 deaths in the DRC, while Janvier Sambabocu, deputy representative of Bunia's largest cemetery, told RFI, "Each day, almost ten bodies arrive. Before, it was three, four."
- Insecurity hampers access to affected communities, and White warned that "testing remains one of the most significant weaknesses in the response," with treatment centres facing "significant delays" in laboratory results.
- No approved vaccines or treatments exist for the Bundibugyo strain, and experts caution that without urgent action, the current outbreak could eventually risk rivalling the scale of the 2014 Africa epidemic, which saw over 28,000 cases.
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The outbreak, already the third largest Ebola epidemic on record and the biggest caused by the Bundibugyo strain, has spread across eastern Congo and into neighboring Uganda.
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NGO warns Ebola epidemic is 'outpacing' response efforts in DRC
French NGO Doctors Without Borders warned Monday that "dangerous gaps" remain in efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 180 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since the first reported cases a month ago, the virus has spread rapidly, with the situation now critical in Ituri province.
Official figures in the Democratic Republic of the Congo "probably reflect only part of the reality," says Médecins sans frontières.
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