Ebola outbreaks are "normal again" while DRC cases have reached the threshold of 2000



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It is estimated that at least 2,031 people have contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is now the second largest epidemic of the disease.

The numbers come as health officials follow 160 epidemics around the world, with an official warning that fighting multiple emergencies is the "new normal."

The DRC Ministry of Health reported that 1937 cases of Ebola had been confirmed in the country, and a further 94 cases were under review.


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The epidemic reported on August 1, 2018 is the tenth and deadliest to hit the country.

Civil war and misinformation have greatly aggravated the DRC epidemic, with one in four undiagnosed cases.

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1/27 Haja Bobor, 31 years old

"During Ebola, they put quarantined areas. My husband was in Kailahun and could not cross the border, so we were separated. They taught us to wash our hands and wash every day every day. even my children washed their hands. Haja is the mother of three surviving children; two of his children died of diarrhea

WaterAid

2/27 Aruna Bockarie, 24 years old

"These are the finished toilets that we have built in our complex, I am very happy to have my own toilet and I will be proud to use it."

WaterAid

3/27 Aruna Bockarie, 24 years old

"All the parents got together and built a school in the village, we just opened the school. The children are in the badembly without uniform. I am the teacher of the school and so I took this picture to show how much we are working so that our children are educated "

WaterAid

4/27 Haja Bobor, 31 years old

'Here is my son, Sessay (left), with his friends. I was happy to break them. I gave birth to six children, but only three are still alive. The first I lost was three years ago and the second, two years ago. Four months ago, I lost Senior Lahai. He was six months old and was affected by a stomach drain and an increase in body temperature.

WaterAid

5/27 Haja Bobor, 31 years old

"Four months ago, I lost Senior Lahai. He was six months old and was suffering from a runny stomach and an increase in body temperature. He was really sick, he did not even take bad milk and he died. My heart was broken. My baby was strong. He was able to sit on his own and was just beginning to train to crawl and reach objects. He laughed a lot when I played with him, I applauded and danced. I have a happy time when he started to sit all alone and learn to crawl. Happy moments make a mother happier. At the moment I remember most of Lahai, it's when he was badfeeding and playing with my neck and my chin with his hand. I look to the future and I hope that such things will not happen again and that God will give me children who stay with me "

WaterAid

6/27 Aruna Bockarie, 24 years old

"My half-brother Ibrahim builds our toilets with a loamy soil, because we do not have cement. WaterAid taught us good sanitation conditions and I want to show that we are now building our own toilets so we do not go into the bush or use the creek as a toilet, so I took this picture. "

WaterAid

7/27 Aruna, 33 years old

Wash the river: "When we arrived here, the water supply system was very bad. I know that when I drink dirty water, I get sick. We have diarrhea because we drink this type of water. If I'm sick, I can not make money because I can not go to work and I have to stay at home, which is very difficult for me. "

WaterAid

8/27 Tailu Yajah

"These are the contractors who came to build the water well, and they mix the stones and the cement to build the well cover"

WaterAid

9/27 Tailu Yajah

"I started climbing trees while living with my grandmother and she was trying to find palm kernels and process them to produce the oil we use. I did not like doing the transformation part, so I decided to climb trees to harvest. Climbing in the trees is very difficult. Sometimes you may be faced with a snake as you climb, you see one and it will whistle to you. If you are not strong, you will fall from the tree and die! I'm just doing it for necessity. I do not really want to do this job, but for the moment I do not have any other way to make money, so I have no choice but to do it to manage my family. "

WaterAid

10/27 Haja Bobor, 31 years old

"They killed my uncle during the war. I was not in this village during the war; I was in Guinea. Just after the war, my mother asked me to go home. There was no house on my return; everything had been destroyed »

WaterAid

11/27 Tailu Yajah

'It's my son Bockarie. He reminds me of his mother, who is not currently with me, and he looks like me. Recently, my son was very sick and we had to take him to the clinic for treatment. Even going to the clinic costs money. I did not have money, so I had to borrow money from people in the community to take her to the hospital. Having a very good drinking water would alleviate the problems of taking people to the hospital because of illness and the problem of finding the money to manage it. "

WaterAid

12/27 Tailu Yujah

"Sidique is 21 years old. It's my daughter's husband and he drinks in the stream we use to fetch water. Our ancestors created this village and the water was good. They covered it with a concrete box to keep it safe, but it all fell during the war and no one could fix it anymore. The water is not good here now and I have worms as a result. It will be very good to have clean water; it would give us a long life. If you have good drinking water, your life is safe, but if you do not do it, your life is not safe. Having good drinking water would alleviate the problems of taking people to the hospital because of illness and the problem of finding the money to manage it. "

WaterAid

13/27 Matu, 40 years old

"We women of this village face the problems of lack of water and we pray that things change. Rain is washing everything, including faeces in the water. Children have water diarrhea. With clean water, I would be clean and I would not suffer from disease "

WaterAid

14/27 Matu, 40 years old

"This is my brother's wife, she holds both her daughter and my granddaughter"

WaterAid

15/27 Matu, 40 years old

Matu is the life and soul of the village of Tombohuaun. She is a traditional birth attendant and plays an important role in women's society. Matu suffers from poor health; she has stomach problems caused by dirty water

WaterAid

16/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

"I call Amadou Kokoyeh, but I know Kokoyeh better. [Bush Chicken]. The name Kokoyeh was given to me by the older brother of the father. It is a bird that is in the bush and eats mostly peanuts from others when they plant them. "

WaterAid

17/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

"It's my dad who helps dig a lot of water for drinking water. I am happy because we are going to have a well in my village. I do not think that the water we are currently collecting at the muddy source is good to drink because it is exposed and contains leaves and other things. I also get water there with my mother, and sometimes I go with the other children. Sometimes, when I drink it, I have a stomach ache and it also gives me a headache. I was sick and I was taken to the health center "

WaterAid

18/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

"It's my family, my mother, my father, and my younger brother. When I'm not with them, this image will make me feel closer to them "

WaterAid

19/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

Yajah Mosque was lying in the grbad and asked me to take a picture. Right now, every day, people ask me to take a picture of them. I am very happy when people ask for a photo. What I like most is watching well-dressed people sitting in a chair or in a very comfortable place that I can break. "

WaterAid

20/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

"We were going to Matu's house and my friends and my brother decided to cover themselves with this fishing net and asked me to take a picture of them. The fishing net was taken from the mother of Ginnah (Mbadah) and I think the photo is really good. I love photography mainly because they stand near the washhouse, where people will heat their water and wash themselves. I love him because they are all my brothers and we are attentive to each other "

WaterAid

21/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

"I love this picture. I took this picture of Bockarie while he was drinking water. The water has been collected at the muddy spring where everyone will pick it up. I do not think it's good for the drink because it is exposed and the leaves and other things fall into it. I also get water there with my mother, and sometimes I go with the other children. Sometimes, when I drink it, I have a stomach ache and it also gives me a headache. I was sick and was taken to the health center. If it's raining, we harvest rain water & # 39;

WaterAid

22/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

"It's my cousin Papay; we are very close, he lives nearby and we spend a lot of time together. In this picture, he is kidding. On his head are what our fathers do to catch fish in small streams. We then eat fish and they sell the rest. It's important for our survival »

WaterAid

23/27 Kempah Ginnah, 42 years old

"The people in the community who helped build the water well, I was delighted, that's why I took this picture." Kempah is a young leader and mechanic from Tombohuaun.

WaterAid

24/27 Kempah Ginnah, 42 years old

"These children are our closest relatives, my children and their friends. They are wonderful children

WaterAid

25/27 Jeneba, 13 years old

"Here my father, my brothers and my aunt separate the cocoa fruit from the pods. By selling cocoa, my family earns enough to pay school fees. "

WaterAid

26/27 Haja Bobor, 31 years old

"We have now built a small school in our village. It's in the clbadroom for the first day of school for my kids. I took this picture to show them in the future so that they know that I want them to be educated and also free of diseases. "

WaterAid

27/27 Haja Bobor, 31 years old

'It's my aunt Mamie Ansumana. She is 40 years old and a farmer. She likes to go to the farm and likes to smile. She took care of me when my children died. The dirty water caused the death of two of my children; I do not want anything to happen to others. She took me from the room where Senior Lahai died in her own room. I have been sleeping in his room for a while. I want to thank her because she always takes care of us »

WaterAid


1/27 Haja Bobor, 31 years old

"During Ebola, they put quarantined areas. My husband was in Kailahun and could not cross the border, so we were separated. They taught us to wash our hands and wash every day every day. even my children washed their hands. Haja is the mother of three surviving children; two of his children died of diarrhea

WaterAid

2/27 Aruna Bockarie, 24 years old

"These are the finished toilets that we have built in our complex, I am very happy to have my own toilet and I will be proud to use it."

WaterAid

3/27 Aruna Bockarie, 24 years old

"All the parents got together and built a school in the village, we just opened the school. The children are in the badembly without uniform. I am the teacher of the school and so I took this picture to show how much we are working so that our children are educated "

WaterAid

4/27 Haja Bobor, 31 years old

'Here is my son, Sessay (left), with his friends. I was happy to break them. I gave birth to six children, but only three are still alive. The first I lost was three years ago and the second, two years ago. Four months ago, I lost Senior Lahai. He was six months old and was affected by a stomach drain and an increase in body temperature.

WaterAid


5/27 Haja Bobor, 31 years old

"Four months ago, I lost Senior Lahai. He was six months old and was suffering from a runny stomach and an increase in body temperature. He was really sick, he did not even take bad milk and he died. My heart was broken. My baby was strong. He was able to sit on his own and was just beginning to train to crawl and reach objects. He laughed a lot when I played with him, I applauded and danced. I have a happy time when he started to sit all alone and learn to crawl. Happy moments make a mother happier. At the moment I remember most of Lahai, it's when he was badfeeding and playing with my neck and my chin with his hand. I look to the future and I hope that such things will not happen again and that God will give me children who stay with me "

WaterAid

6/27 Aruna Bockarie, 24 years old

"My half-brother Ibrahim builds our toilets with a loamy soil, because we do not have cement. WaterAid taught us good sanitation conditions and I want to show that we are now building our own toilets so we do not go into the bush or use the creek as a toilet, so I took this picture. "

WaterAid

7/27 Aruna, 33 years old

Wash the river: "When we arrived here, the water supply system was very bad. I know that when I drink dirty water, I get sick. We have diarrhea because we drink this type of water. If I'm sick, I can not make money because I can not go to work and I have to stay at home, which is very difficult for me. "

WaterAid

8/27 Tailu Yajah

"These are the contractors who came to build the water well, and they mix the stones and the cement to build the well cover"

WaterAid


9/27 Tailu Yajah

"I started climbing trees while living with my grandmother and she was trying to find palm kernels and process them to produce the oil we use. I did not like doing the transformation part, so I decided to climb trees to harvest. Climbing in the trees is very difficult. Sometimes you may be faced with a snake as you climb, you see one and it will whistle to you. If you are not strong, you will fall from the tree and die! I'm just doing it for necessity. I do not really want to do this job, but for the moment I do not have any other way to make money, so I have no choice but to do it to manage my family. "

WaterAid

10/27 Haja Bobor, 31 years old

"They killed my uncle during the war. I was not in this village during the war; I was in Guinea. Just after the war, my mother asked me to go home. There was no house on my return; everything had been destroyed »

WaterAid

11/27 Tailu Yajah

'It's my son Bockarie. He reminds me of his mother, who is not currently with me, and he looks like me. Recently, my son was very sick and we had to take him to the clinic for treatment. Even going to the clinic costs money. I did not have money, so I had to borrow money from people in the community to take her to the hospital. Having a very good drinking water would alleviate the problems of taking people to the hospital because of illness and the problem of finding the money to manage it. "

WaterAid

12/27 Tailu Yujah

"Sidique is 21 years old. It's my daughter's husband and he drinks in the stream we use to fetch water. Our ancestors created this village and the water was good. They covered it with a concrete box to keep it safe, but it all fell during the war and no one could fix it anymore. The water is not good here now and I have worms as a result. It will be very good to have clean water; it would give us a long life. If you have good drinking water, your life is safe, but if you do not do it, your life is not safe. Having good drinking water would alleviate the problems of taking people to the hospital because of illness and the problem of finding the money to manage it. "

WaterAid


13/27 Matu, 40 years old

"We women of this village face the problems of lack of water and we pray that things change. Rain is washing everything, including faeces in the water. Children have water diarrhea. With clean water, I would be clean and I would not suffer from disease "

WaterAid

14/27 Matu, 40 years old

"This is my brother's wife, she holds both her daughter and my granddaughter"

WaterAid

15/27 Matu, 40 years old

Matu is the life and soul of the village of Tombohuaun. She is a traditional birth attendant and plays an important role in women's society. Matu suffers from poor health; she has stomach problems caused by dirty water

WaterAid

16/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

"I call Amadou Kokoyeh, but I know Kokoyeh better. [Bush Chicken]. The name Kokoyeh was given to me by the older brother of the father. It is a bird that is in the bush and eats mostly peanuts from others when they plant them. "

WaterAid


17/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

"It's my dad who helps dig a lot of water for drinking water. I am happy because we are going to have a well in my village. I do not think that the water we are currently collecting at the muddy source is good to drink because it is exposed and contains leaves and other things. I also get water there with my mother, and sometimes I go with the other children. Sometimes, when I drink it, I have a stomach ache and it also gives me a headache. I was sick and I was taken to the health center "

WaterAid

18/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

"It's my family, my mother, my father, and my younger brother. When I'm not with them, this image will make me feel closer to them "

WaterAid

19/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

Yajah Mosque was lying in the grbad and asked me to take a picture. Right now, every day, people ask me to take a picture of them. I am very happy when people ask for a photo. What I like most is watching well-dressed people sitting in a chair or in a very comfortable place that I can break. "

WaterAid

20/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

"We were going to Matu's house and my friends and my brother decided to cover themselves with this fishing net and asked me to take a picture of them. The fishing net was taken from the mother of Ginnah (Mbadah) and I think the photo is really good. I love photography mainly because they stand near the washhouse, where people will heat their water and wash themselves. I love him because they are all my brothers and we are attentive to each other "

WaterAid


21/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

"I love this picture. I took this picture of Bockarie while he was drinking water. The water has been collected at the muddy spring where everyone will pick it up. I do not think it's good for the drink because it is exposed and the leaves and other things fall into it. I also get water there with my mother, and sometimes I go with the other children. Sometimes, when I drink it, I have a stomach ache and it also gives me a headache. I was sick and was taken to the health center. If it's raining, we harvest rain water & # 39;

WaterAid

22/27 Tinder Kokoyeh (bush chicken), 8

"It's my cousin Papay; we are very close, he lives nearby and we spend a lot of time together. In this picture, he is kidding. On his head are what our fathers do to catch fish in small streams. We then eat fish and they sell the rest. It's important for our survival »

WaterAid

23/27 Kempah Ginnah, 42 years old

"The people in the community who helped build the water well, I was delighted, that's why I took this picture." Kempah is a young leader and mechanic from Tombohuaun.

WaterAid

24/27 Kempah Ginnah, 42 years old

"These children are our closest relatives, my children and their friends. They are wonderful children

WaterAid


25/27 Jeneba, 13 years old

"Here my father, my brothers and my aunt separate the cocoa fruit from the pods. By selling cocoa, my family earns enough to pay school fees. "

WaterAid

26/27 Haja Bobor, 31 years old

"We have now built a small school in our village. It's in the clbadroom for the first day of school for my kids. I took this picture to show them in the future so that they know that I want them to be educated and also free of diseases. "

WaterAid

27/27 Haja Bobor, 31 years old

'It's my aunt Mamie Ansumana. She is 40 years old and a farmer. She likes to go to the farm and likes to smile. She took care of me when my children died. The dirty water caused the death of two of my children; I do not want anything to happen to others. She took me from the room where Senior Lahai died in her own room. I have been sleeping in his room for a while. I want to thank her because she always takes care of us »

WaterAid

"I do not think we've ever faced so much urgency at the same time," said Michael Ryan, WHO's chief of emergency, BBC.

He told the broadcaster that WHO was monitoring 160 cases of disease worldwide, nine of them at the highest level of emergency.

"It's a new normal, I do not think the frequency of these events is decreasing," he said.

At least 1,367 people have died from Ebola in the DRC, while 552 people have recovered, but the WHO said it could miss a quarter of cases in eastern Congo. .

Ryan said violent unrest in the area could prevent detection.

"We think that, in my opinion, be very careful, we probably detect more than 75% of cases – we may miss up to a quarter of cases," he said at a conference of press in Geneva.

"We need to detect cases earlier, have a more comprehensive identification of contacts."

The WHO was forced to temporarily stop its response activities in April 2019 after Richard Mouzoko Kiboung, an epidemiologist, was killed during the attack on a hospital by armed militias.

Ryan said that on average, 88 new confirmed cases were confirmed each week in the past two weeks, compared to 126 cases diagnosed weekly in April 2019.

The epidemic is the second largest in history (chart ebola 1)

Medical staff working in the DRC have been attacked by locals who are suspicious of foreigners and government officials.

Many people are afraid to go to Ebola treatment centers, preferring to stay home and risk transmitting the virus disease to their family and neighbors.

Others think that the disease is spreading by design or that its existence is a lie.

Mr Ryan said the situation was "extremely volatile" and that the WHO feared further violence in the DRC.

Officials find it difficult to track the spread of the disease due to population movements, as patients often travel far from home for treatment.

"Health Research Behavior [is one of the] the main factors of the epidemic, "he said.

Mr Ryan said that the Ebola outbreak was not under control and that it was spreading rapidly in some areas, especially in the rural area of ​​Mabalako.


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"It is more important than ever that we master this epidemic," said Rory Stewart, Britain's Minister for International Development, in response to the new figures.

"The UK continues to be at the forefront of the response, but it must be part of a global effort that others will support."

"This epidemic is potentially devastating for the region. It could spread easily to neighboring provinces and even to neighboring countries. "

The 2014-2016 epidemic in West Africa, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, which killed more than 11,000 people, is the worst epidemic ever recorded.

Additional reports by agencies

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