Ebola Response Must Be Scaled up, Says WHO
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 80% of new cases are outside known contacts, and the response plan seeks $1.3 billion.
- On Wednesday, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported that Congo's Ebola death toll has surpassed 3,000, with the epidemic continuing to spread across the country's northeast.
- Caused by the Bundibugyo species of Ebola, this outbreak became the largest in Congo's history after surpassing the 2018-2020 epidemic, now second only to the 2014-2016 West African outbreak.
- The WHO has shipped 320 tons of supplies yet faces a $1.3 billion funding gap, while the United States Centers for Disease Control warned that 80 percent of new cases occur outside known contact lists.
- Clinical efficacy trials for potential vaccines are scheduled for October or November, while authorities in worst-hit areas reopened schools this week, reversing remote learning plans.
- "Until every chain is found and broken, the epidemic will continue and will continue to pose a threat to DRC, its neighbours and the region as a whole," Tedros warned, urging accelerated international funding.
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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the second largest and fastest-spreading outbreak on record.
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WHO says Ebola response must be scaled up to tackle Congo outbreak
The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday said the Ebola response needs to be scaled up to tackle the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with tracking the chains of transmission still posing a challenge. “Until every chain is found and broken, the epidemic will continue and will continue to pose a […]
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