Congo and Uganda Report 263 Confirmed Ebola Cases with 43 Deaths | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Health officials reported 263 confirmed cases and 43 deaths as response teams struggled with shortages and delayed detection of the Bundibugyo strain.
- On Saturday, the World Health Organization and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported 263 confirmed Ebola cases across Congo and Uganda, with 43 confirmed deaths, including 42 in Congo and one in Uganda.
- Health experts believe the rare Bundibugyo strain originated from fruit bats and spreads through infected wildlife contact, with human-to-human transmission amplified by unsafe burial practices and inadequate infection prevention in healthcare settings.
- Deputy Director Alan Gonzalez said the team is playing catch-up, with more than 1,100 suspected cases under investigation and the outbreak potentially worsening due to a 'perfect storm' of delays in identifying the Bundibugyo strain.
- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited Bunia in Ituri province on Saturday, and on Sunday reported that five patients had recovered from the disease during the opening of a new treatment center.
- This Ebola outbreak is the 17th in Congo and the third-largest since discovery half a century ago; Tedros expressed confidence that the country has historically been able to end each outbreak, saying, 'That history gives me real confidence.
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Congo and Uganda report 263 confirmed Ebola cases with 43 deaths | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
As of May 30, 263 confirmed Ebola cases have been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, the director-general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Jean Kaseya said.
DRCongo. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Africa, Dr. Jean Kaseya, announced this Sunday that the Ebola outbreak that is raging in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has spread to Uganda already leaves 43 dead and more than 263 confirmed cases since his statement until last Saturday.In an editorial published by the ‘Financial Times’, Kaseya also reported that there are now more than 1,100 suspe…
Information is from the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which said more than 1.1 thousand cases are being investigated
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