Ebola Outbreak in the DRC Raises Global Health Concerns Amid Conflict and Displacement

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UNITED NATIONS – Since 16 May there has been a significant increase in the number of confirmed laboratory Ebola cases and reported suspects throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), mainly in Ituri province, with additional unrelated cases identified in neighbouring Uganda. The outbreak is “extremely [...]

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The Ebola emergency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is compounded by violence, misinformation and health collapse. A new mob of young people broke into an Ebola treatment clinic in Mongbwalu, eastern Ituri province, on Sunday night to demand the return of the bodies of two victims of the disease, while the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that suspected cases in DRC and Uganda already exceed 900. Witnesses cited by Breitbart N…

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Doctors working at the front line of the fight against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who already face a shortage of basic supplies, now need to deal with attacks on health facilities and with the flight of patients, as the virus spreads rapidly. At least three such incidents occurred in Ituri province, in the north-east of the country, where the first cases of Ebola were reported, including two on the weekend of the same hospita…

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Residents who wanted to take over a remains entered the Mongbwalu hospital, located in the Congolese province of Ituri, the home of the current epidemic.