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DRC: A surge in infections! Ebola death toll hit 700 its tenth outbreak

MAURICE MUHWEZI | PML Daily Writer /Social Media Editor by MAURICE MUHWEZI | PML Daily Writer /Social Media Editor
April 7, 2019
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Red Cross volunteer explains measures to prevent infection with Ebola to inhabitants, on 17 August 17, 2018, in Butugo, western Uganda, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.  (AFP FILE PHOTO)

BUTEMBO, DRC – Some 100 people have died in the Ebola epidemic in DR Congo over the past three weeks, taking the overall death toll in the latest outbreak past 700, according to DRC’s health ministry data.

Local people are now at least receiving vaccines on a large scale for the first time with more than 95,000 getting a dose of the rVSV-Zebov vaccine from Merck laboratories.

The health ministry said this had enabled thousands of lives to be saved.

The Democratic Republic of Congo declared its tenth outbreak of Ebola in forty years last August in northeastern North Kivu province before it spread into the neighbouring Ituri region.

The current outbreak is the second worst to date, the deadliest being a 2014 epidemic in West Africa which killed more than 10,000 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

“Since the start of the epidemic, overall cases are 1,117 – 1,051 confirmed and 66 probable. In total there are 702 deaths (636 confirmed and 66 probable) and 339 people who have recovered,” the ministry said, quoting data up to Thursday.

The ministry added late Friday April 5 that another 295 suspected cases were being examined.

The World Health Organisation has warned that “the risk of national and regional spread remains very high” and said dealing with the epidemic could take another six months.

Poor security owing to the presence of several armed groups, coupled with the resistance of some communities to seeking treatment, has hampered the fight to stem the spread of the disease.

A recent study in the central Congolese cities of Beni and Butembo found only a third trusted local authorities to help them and more than a quarter believed Ebola does not exist.

In areas close to the Uganda, many of the cases have been referred and examined at Bundibugyo Hospital as the designate treatmetn center for potential cases

 

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