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Congo Ebola cases pass 10,000, health ministry data show
Congo’s health ministry said Tuesday that a Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak declared in May has reached 10,060 confirmed cases, with nearly half of those patients dead, according to an Associated Press report.
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Based on reporting by AP
Congo’s Ministry of Health data showed Tuesday that a Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak declared in May has reached 10,060 confirmed cases, nearly half of them fatal, the Associated Press reported from Bunia1.
AP said the count makes the episode the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record and the deadliest in Congo’s history, while remaining smaller in total cases than the 2014-2016 West Africa epidemic1.
There is no approved vaccine or treatment for Bundibugyo virus, AP reported, and responders face conflict, poor roads, unpaid health workers, and community mistrust1.
The disease has reached 66 health zones in eight Congolese provinces, up from three in May, and about 80 percent of recorded cases still come from people who were not already being monitored, AP said, citing Africa CDC’s control threshold of 95 percent among known contacts1.
AP said cases have been recorded in Kenya and Nigeria as well as Uganda and France, with no active cases in the latter two at the time of the report; at least half of deaths in Congo occurred among people never admitted to treatment centers1.
A nurse was killed Saturday while answering an Ebola alert in Bafwasende, Tshopo province, AP reported, and the outbreak has disrupted other care, including a rise in maternal deaths in some provinces1.
