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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday confirmed 14 new cases of Ebola in its eastern border areas, the largest single day increase since the outbreak of the current outbreak in August.
In total, haemorrhagic fever killed 439 people and infected 274 others in the eastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the epidemic in a volatile part of the DRC is the worst ever recorded.
The largest epidemic occurred between 2013 and 2016 in West Africa. More than 28,000 cases have been confirmed.
The news comes shortly after the drug maker Merck announced that it would send about 120,000 additional doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine to the Congo by the end of next month.
Associate Vice President Lydia Ogden told the World Economic Forum that the company is committed to stockpiling 300,000 doses and has already shipped 100,000 to WHO. .
Health officials have described the high-efficacy experimental vaccine against the virus.
The DRC Ministry of Health announced that more than 63,000 people had received the vaccine during the epidemic reported on August 1 in the densely populated northeast of the country, near Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Rwanda.
Vaccination is complicated by rebel attacks, poor infrastructure and, in some cases, hostility from communities that have never faced an Ebola outbreak.
The aid groups have been forced to end Ebola prevention activities in the past because of the violence.
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