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Dakar, Senegal
The number of Ebola victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has risen to 777 since the beginning of the epidemic at the end of July last year, the Ministry of Health said on Friday. Health of the country.
The Ebola outbreak, named after the Ebola River, first seen in the world in Yambuku village in the DRC in 1976, continues to threaten public health in the country.
The tenth Ebola outbreak, which began in July 2018 in North Kivu province and then spread to the province of Ituri, became the most deadly epidemic. from the country.
Previously, the first Ebola outbreak in 1976 was the deadliest with a total of 280 deaths.
According to the Ministry of Health, of the 1,251 reported cases of haemorrhagic fever, 1,185 have been confirmed.
Ebola is the second most deadly epidemic in the world with more than 11,000 deaths between 2014 and 2017 in West African countries – including Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
However, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that it was not necessary to declare an "emergency".
According to the same source, $ 104 million would be needed to fund the strategic response plan against Ebola until July.
Ebola – a tropical fever that appeared in Sudan and DRC in 1976 – can be transmitted to humans by wild animals.
It could also be spread through contact with body fluids, infected people or people who succumb to the virus.
The Ebola virus set off a global alarm in 2014 when the world's worst epidemic broke out in West Africa, killing more than 11,300 people and 28,600 people, while it was invading Liberia, the world over. Guinea and Sierra Leone.
* Writing Burak Bir
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