The second Ebola case in Goma, Congo has infected several people – government

GOMA – The second Ebola case in Goma, eastern Congo, had a large family with 10 children and was able to infect several people before dying of haemorrhagic fever, the country's coordinator said. the government's response to Ebola.

Coordinator Jean-Jacques Muyembe also said that a sister of the man, a gold miner, who had gone to South Kivu in Congo, was quickly identified and brought back to Goma.

But he warned that authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo identified only 50% of Ebola cases.

"If we continue on this basis, this epidemic could last two or three years," he said at a press conference in Goma.

Margaret Harris, spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO), however, said in Geneva that 538 primary and secondary contacts had already been found among the four Ebola patients in Goma.

A spokesman for the Ebola response team in the Congo said that of the 300 primary and secondary contacts identified to date among gold miners, 240 had been vaccinated.

(Report by Aaron Ross Additional Report by Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva Written by Tim Cocks Edited by Anna Pujol-Mazzini)