WHO Calls for 'Intensified' Response as DR Congo Ebola Cases Near 4,000
Officials say the outbreak has reached 3,874 confirmed cases and 1,751 deaths as international teams move to strengthen the response.
- Congo's Ministry of Health reported on Monday that the rare Bundibugyo virus outbreak reached 3,874 confirmed cases and 1,751 deaths, becoming the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in the country.
- Active militia groups, community mistrust of medical workers, and strikes by aid staff protesting pay and conditions are complicating the Ebola response across affected regions.
- The World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited Kinshasa to meet President Felix Tshisekedi, urging partners to scale up efforts. The United States government pledged $242 million in additional funding.
- Professor Teresa Lambe leads University of Oxford scientists recruiting volunteers for a trial of a new vaccine using technology similar to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, needing 50 volunteers to proceed.
- Volunteers will be monitored for a year to provide crucial data on immune responses and side effects as vaccine trials advance rapidly against the spreading outbreak.
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Doctor treating Ebola in DR Congo who survived virus
Dr. Alex Bonane Murutsi works at the Elykia Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of Congo where more than 1,500 people have died following an outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic virus. The current Ebola outbreak is now the largest in the country's history. Dr. Alex was also infected, and treated in one of the rooms at the center.
With 1,850 confirmed deaths, Médecins Sans Frontières warns that the epidemic spreads at an unprecedented rate and outside the identified transmission chains
Africa CDC and WHO Call for Urgent, Community-Led Action to Contain Ebola in the DR Congo
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for an urgent scale-up of the community-led Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with stronger early detection, contact follow up, access to care, support for frontline health workers and faster delivery of resources to affected communities.
The death toll from the Ebola outbreak declared in May in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reportedly risen to 1,801.
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