WHO Calls for 'Intensified' Response as DR Congo Ebola Cases Near 4,000
Officials say the outbreak has reached 3,874 confirmed cases and 1,751 deaths as international teams move to strengthen the response.
- Congo's Ministry of Health reported on Monday that the rare Bundibugyo virus outbreak reached 3,874 confirmed cases and 1,751 deaths, becoming the fastest-growing such outbreak in the country.
- Active militia groups, community mistrust of medical workers, and strikes by aid staff protesting pay and conditions are complicating Ebola containment efforts across the outbreak region.
- The World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited Kinshasa to meet with Tshisekedi, stating "We all agree that we must urgently and massively scale up all our efforts." The United States pledged $242 million in additional funding.
- Scientists at the University of Oxford, led by Professor Teresa Lambe, are recruiting volunteers for a vaccine trial using technology similar to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine; the team needs 50 volunteers to proceed.
- Manufactured by the Serum Institute in India, 600,000 doses of the experimental vaccine are ready for deployment if trials prove successful, with volunteers monitored for a year to assess immune responses and side effects.
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The Ebola virus continues to spread rapidly in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
WHO calls for 'intensified' response as DR Congo Ebola cases near 4,000
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ebola outbreak is spreading, with the number of infections rising rapidly. Declared in mid-May, this seventeenth Ebola outbreak has already claimed more than 1,700 lives. To address this situation, the World Health Organisation has called for an "intensified" medical response. Teams of doctors have been sent to the DR Congo, and specialised centres have been set up in the hardest-hit provinces while t…
W.H.O. Seeks Volunteers for Ebola Vaccine Trial as Death Rate Soars
Trials for new Ebola vaccines are now underway in Canada and the UK but the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) said Tuesday volunteers are needed to participate in clinical experiments as deaths and cases soar in the largest ever outbreak on record in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The post W.H.O. Seeks Volunteers for Ebola Vaccine Trial as Death Rate Soars appeared first on Breitbart.
Fatality rate is 45.3%, according to the Congolese Ministry of Health. Epidemic in "sustained transmission", with the fastest growth ever. Uganda is free of the virus.
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informacion.esThe Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) raised the number of deaths this Thursday to 1,801 and 3,973 confirmed cases of Ebola by the outbreak declared in the east of the country on 15 May.Continue reading....
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