The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the Ebola epidemic has flared in the north east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the Ebola epidemic has flared in the north east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
WHO spokesman Eugene Kabambie country, said the agency has taken such action after three people died were suspected of having Ebola area since April 22.
WHO said the outbreak is affecting forest areas to sit, in the province of Bas-Mele near the border with the Central African Republic.
The agency said the Minister of Health of DR Congo Kalenga Oly via letter, said there were nine people from the health area Likati, Aket were feared to be Ebola.
Children and elderly people are the more they contribute to the spread of Ebola
Five of them were tested and one of them proved to be positive.
Three of the nine were dead.
The minister had WHO wrote the letter asking for help in controlling the disease.
"It is an area incident happened far away, a large forest, so we were relatively lucky. We do take very seriously cases like this," said Kabambie.
The area lies 1,300 kilometers northeast of the capital of DR Congo, Kinshasa. The epicenter of the explosion of the area is now taken up.
In 2014, the outbreak of the disease was controlled Congo quickly although 49 people died.
More than 11,000 people died from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa 2014-2015, very in Guinea, Sierra Leon and Liberia in the outbreak was said to be the world's worst.
The current outbreak is the eighth happen in DR Congo since 1976.
source BBC Swahili
WHO spokesman Eugene Kabambie country, said the agency has taken such action after three people died were suspected of having Ebola area since April 22.
WHO said the outbreak is affecting forest areas to sit, in the province of Bas-Mele near the border with the Central African Republic.
The agency said the Minister of Health of DR Congo Kalenga Oly via letter, said there were nine people from the health area Likati, Aket were feared to be Ebola.
Children and elderly people are the more they contribute to the spread of Ebola
Five of them were tested and one of them proved to be positive.
Three of the nine were dead.
The minister had WHO wrote the letter asking for help in controlling the disease.
"It is an area incident happened far away, a large forest, so we were relatively lucky. We do take very seriously cases like this," said Kabambie.
The area lies 1,300 kilometers northeast of the capital of DR Congo, Kinshasa. The epicenter of the explosion of the area is now taken up.
In 2014, the outbreak of the disease was controlled Congo quickly although 49 people died.
More than 11,000 people died from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa 2014-2015, very in Guinea, Sierra Leon and Liberia in the outbreak was said to be the world's worst.
The current outbreak is the eighth happen in DR Congo since 1976.
source BBC Swahili

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