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Ebola outbreak is worsening food insecurity in eastern Congo, UN agency chief warns
The World Food Programme says more than 2.7 million people in Ebola-affected areas face acute food insecurity as market and supply routes are disrupted.
- On July 28, field investigator Dr. Moubarack Kano used his own white Subaru Forester to conduct Ebola surveillance in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, after the city's four official vehicles became unavailable.
- Official figures recorded 3,200 infections and 1,405 deaths as of Sunday, though underreporting by clinics hampers tracking; Dr. Rachel Ulingisayi, who oversees Bunia's surveillance teams, said clinics often avoid alerts because "if people don't have phone credit, they don't call."
- Carl Skau, acting executive director of the World Food Program, described the outbreak as a "crisis on top of a crisis" affecting over 5 million Congolese facing emergency-level food insecurity. The WFP has delivered more than 160,000 hot meals to patients and workers.
- Resistance to medical intervention complicates response efforts, as seen when a mother recently refused testing for her sick children; Kano noted that poor planning and inexperienced staff have hampered the response since the outbreak began on May 15.
- Unlike most past outbreaks, the Bundibugyo virus lacks approved vaccines or treatments, and officials warned the virus continues to spread faster than health teams can track, threatening to overwhelm surveillance efforts.
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Ebola outbreak is worsening food insecurity in eastern Congo, UN agency chief warns
The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is worsening the region's food insecurity, according to the World Food Program's acting Executive Director Carl Skau who described the situation as a “crisis on top of a crisis.”
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