DR Congo Declares End To Latest Ebola Outbreak

DR Congo Declares End To Latest Ebola Outbreak

by Agence France-Presse
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The Democratic Republic of Congo declared its latest Ebola outbreak over on Monday, the World Health Organization said, more than two months after the virus re-emerged in the countryโ€™s northwest.

Health authorities in the vast central African nation declared an epidemic on April 23 in Mbandaka, in the northwestern Equateur province.
There were four confirmed cases and one probable case โ€” all of whom died, the WHO said on Monday.
The previous outbreak in the forested province, from June to November 2020, claimed 55 lives.
WHOโ€™s regional director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti said in the statement that the authorities reacted rapidly, limiting the spread of Ebola with a vaccination campaign four days after the start of the outbreak.
โ€œCrucial lessons have been learned from past outbreaks and they have been applied to devise and deploy an ever more effective Ebola responseโ€.
Ebola is an often-fatal viral haemorrhagic fever that was first identified in central Africa in 1976. The disease was named after a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire.
Human transmission is through body fluids, with the main symptoms being fever, vomiting, bleeding and diarrhoea.
The DRCโ€™s latest outbreak marks the 14th since 1976, according to the WHO. Six of those outbreaks have occurred since 2018.

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