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The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) calculated on Tuesday the number 15 of deaths due to the Ebola epidemic in the north-east of the country.
In a report prepared with data collected for Monday, January 14 The Congolese authorities reported that of the 402 deaths, 353 were confirmed by laboratory tests and 49 are still probable.
In addition, it is estimated that the total
This outbreak – the deadliest in the history of the DRC and the second in the world in terms of deaths and cases, after the epidemic in Africa from the West, is estimated at 658, of which 609 confirmed. 2014 – was declared on 1 August in the provinces of North Kivu and of Ituri .
However, control of the epidemic has been hampered by the rejection of some communities receiving treatment. and insecurity in the region, where several
This is the second outbreak declared in 2018 in the DRC, just eight days after the Minister of Health, Oly Ilunga proclaimed the end of the previous epidemic in the west of the country [19659003] This epidemic has already pbaded the most deadly in the history of the DRC, occurred in the city of Yambuku at the end of August 1976 and was considered the first registered Ebola outbreak, killing 280 in 318 cases.
The most devastating outbreak in the world was reported in March 2014; cases date back to December 2013 in Guinea and then spread to Sierra. Leoa and Liberia .
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