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An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claimed 1,000 lives on Friday and the World Health Organization (WHO) fears that it will continue to snowball.
At a press conference on Friday morning, the executive director of the WHO 's Emergency Health Program, Michael Ryan, said that as of May 1, 1,510 cases of malaria were reported. Ebola had been recorded in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri in the DRC, including 994 deaths. Reuters announced later in the day that the death toll had exceeded 1,000, making it the second-worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded.
Although more than 100,000 people have already been vaccinated and WHO plans to expand its immunization efforts, Ryan said the organization was worried the situation would not go away. ; worse. "We anticipate a scenario of intense and continuous transmission," he said.
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Treatment centers must not only cope with the disease, but also with the attacks of armed militias.
"Since January, we have had 119 separate attacks, 42 of which are directly related to health facilities and 85 injured or killed in these environments, so we are facing a difficult and unstable situation," Ryan said.
"Basically, every time we managed to regain control of the virus and contain it, we had serious security problems," he added.
Last month, WHO announced in a press release that Dr. Richard Mouzoko, a WHO epidemiologist, had been killed by armed men while working to contain the disease.
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