Ebola Outbreak Surpasses 3,000 Cases as First Human Vaccine Trial for Rare Bundibugyo Virus Begins
Insecurity, strikes and undercounted infections are complicating containment as health officials say 540 patients have recovered and 766 remain hospitalized.
- Official data released on Saturday showed that confirmed Ebola infections in the Democratic Republic of Congo have reached 3,075, with the death toll rising to 1,354.
- This 17th outbreak involves the Bundibugyo strain, for which no approved vaccine or treatment currently exists, concentrated in the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu.
- Nearly 90% of cases are concentrated in Ituri, where health authorities added more than 300 previously uncounted infections; currently, 766 patients remain hospitalised while 540 have recovered.
- Response efforts face significant disruption from armed conflict and community mistrust hampering contact tracing, compounded by industrial action at the Elikya Ebola Treatment Centre in Bunia over unpaid staff bonuses.
- Scientists are racing to develop treatments against the Bundibugyo strain, with Oxford University reporting Friday that the first volunteer group received an experimental vaccine specifically targeting the virus.
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The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has killed more than 1,000 people in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, while health officials rush to contain a virus without vaccine or approved treatment.
Health professionals train to handle suspected cases of Ebola in SP The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) raised on Monday (27/07) to 1,405 the number of deaths and to 3,200 the total number of confirmed cases of Ebola since the onset of the outbreak of the disease at the end of April. Thus, the lethality rate is 43.9%, according to the latest bulletin of the Ministry of Communication and Media of the DRC, with data compil…
In the Congo, the number of Ebola cases has risen to 3200 and the number of deaths to 1400 In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the number of confirmed Ebola cases has risen to 3200, including 1,405 deaths. Data published by government sources on Sunday.
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