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Congo declares new Ebola outbreak, 28 suspected cases
The outbreak involves the Zaire strain, causing a 53.6% fatality rate and affecting health workers; rapid response teams and vaccines are being deployed to contain it.
- Congo's health ministry declared a new outbreak of Ebola in the central province of Kasai, marking the country's 16th outbreak since 1976, after a confirmed case and 28 suspected infections were reported.
- Currently, there are 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths linked to the outbreak, including four healthcare workers who had contact with the initial patient, a pregnant woman with severe symptoms.
- Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba reported a case fatality rate of 53.6% and emphasized the ongoing investigation into the situation.
- Ebola is highly contagious, spreading through direct contact with bodily fluids and causing severe illness, as reported by health officials.
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New Ebola Outbreak Declared in Congo
DR Congo suffers new Ebola outbreak
An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has killed at least 15 people, further straining health services in the country. The virus, which is spread by bodily fluids, is endemic in animal populations in Central and West Africa, and there are periodic outbreaks. The largest, originating in Guinea in 2014, killed over 11,000 people, and another in 2018 killed a further 2,000; other flare-ups have died away more quickly. The DRC is…
The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared this Thursday a state of epidemic due to an outbreak of Ebola that has already killed at least 16 people, four of them health workers, of almost thirty possible cases in the area of Bulapé, located to the south-west of the country, in the province of Kasai. “I officially announce, on behalf of the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Social Welfare, the resurgence of Ebola v…
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