The outbreak of Ebola in Congo officially over

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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

/ dpa

Kinshasa / Geneva – The latest outbreak of Ebola in Congo was officially declared over. There have been no new cases known for 42 days, which means the end of the epidemic in Equatorial Province, said yesterday the Congolese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization. health (WHO).

Success in the fight against highly contagious haemorrhagic fever Thanks to all partners. According to WHO, the international community used about $ 63 million to fight the epidemic – about a tenth of them came from Germany

The outbreak in the country of Central Africa was explained early May service. Individual diseases have also occurred in the megapolis Mbandaka, which is why initially a rapid spread of the disease was to be feared. Since then, the dangerous pathogen has been confirmed in 38 cases, in 16 others, the diagnosis was considered likely, as explained by the Ministry of Health in Kinshasa. Thirty-three people died, Ebullah virus was detected in 17 of the victims.

It was already the ninth Ebola outbreak in Congo in the last 40 years. The disease is named after a Congolese river. The Ebola virus is one of the most dangerous pathogens in the world. During a devastating epidemic in 2014 and 2015, more than 11,000 people died in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. © dpa / aerzteblatt.de