 has warned that an Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is likely to spread over tens of kilometres and poses a high regional risk given its proximity to borders. ){kind=link}
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that an Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is likely to spread over tens of kilometres and poses a high regional risk given its proximity to borders.
Four people have so far tested positive for Ebola in and around Mangina, a town of about 60,000 people in the North Kivu province, which is 100 km from the Ugandan border.
20 others died from unidentified haemorrhagic fevers in the area, mostly in the second half of July. On July 29, a previous outbreak on the other side of the Central African country was declared over after killing 33 people.
Officials in Mangina rushed on Thursday to educate people about the risks of spreading the virus in a town that one local nurse told Reuters had no ambulance service.
Congo’s Health Ministry says the kind of Ebola in the latest outbreak has been confirmed as the Zaire strain that the Merck vaccine protects against.