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Dakar, Senegal
The death toll from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 370 since the beginning of the outbreak that erupted in late July last year, the Ministry of Health said on Monday. Health of the country.
According to the ministry, of the 685 reported cases of haemorrhagic fever, 636 were Ebola cases.
It has also been reported that 245 people have recovered from the virus in this country of Central Africa.
About 49 people died from a haemorrhagic fever, but it was not possible to determine if they had died of the Ebola virus because they had been buried without autopsy.
A total of 63,061 people received an Ebola vaccine in the country as part of a campaign that began Aug. 8.
Ebola – a tropical fever that appeared in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976 – can be transmitted to humans by wild animals.
It could also spread through contact with the body fluids of infected people or those who have succumbed to the virus.
The Ebola virus triggered a global alarm in 2014 when the world's worst outbreak broke out in West Africa, leaving more than 11,300 people dead and 28,600 infected as it invaded Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria. Sierra Leone.
Report by Alaattin Dogru: Writing by Busra Nur Bilgic
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