The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has exceeded 1,000 cases in less than nine months. A total of 1,009 people have reported symptoms of hemorrhagic fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's northeastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri since Aug. 1. Among those
The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has exceeded 1,000 cases in less than nine months.
"Before being a public health emergency, an Ebola epidemic is above all a human and social tragedy," the health minister, Dr. Oly Ilunga Kalenga, said in a statement Sunday."Behind these numbers are several hundred Congolese families directly affected by the virus and hundreds of orphans."So far, no cases have spread beyond North Kivu and Ituri provinces, nor across international borders.
It's the first Ebola outbreak in history to occur in an active war zone. North Kivu and Ituri, the two provinces where people have been infected, are awash with conflict and insecurity. Health and frontline workers are facing sporadic attacks from armed groups operating near the country's mineral-rich, volatile borderland with Uganda.
"The response begins at the level of the mother who brings her sick child to the health center and accepts that a sample is taken for the laboratory," he continued."It is also based on the head of the family, who accepts that all family members are vaccinated after one of them has been infected with Ebola."
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