The Democratic Republic of Congo confirmed Thursday that a case of Ebola had been recorded in a northwest city, and a doctor there said several hundred people may have been in contact with people infected by the disease. “One of the two samples tested positive for the Ebola virus,” he said in a statement. “We estimate that more than 300 people have been in contact, directly or indirectly, with people contaminated by the Ebola virus in Mbandaka,” a doctor at the city’s general hospital told AFP. The mood in Mbandaka, a city on the Congo River, was panicky, local people said. How are we going to survive if the disease spreads here?”(AFP)(Visited 167 times, 1 visits today)

Source: Punch May 17, 2018 14:59 UTC