DAKAR, Senegal — The deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo marked six months on Friday with officials noting a worrying number of confirmed cases linked to health centres. In the past three weeks in Katwa, 49 “health structures” were identified where confirmed cases were hospitalized, and eight new infected health workers were reported, WHO said. With 759 Ebola cases, including 705 of them confirmed and 414 confirmed deaths, this has become the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history, behind the West Africa outbreak that killed more than 11,000 in 2014-2016. That rate is lower in communities that had cases early in the outbreak, reflecting health workers’ progress. Each time Ebola emerges in a new community, health workers must start from zero to explain the disease.

Source: National Post February 01, 2019 13:43 UTC