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The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a "public health emergency of international concern," said World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebresus .
At a press conference held in Geneva on Wednesday, following a meeting of the OIC Emergency Committee to examine the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC), Gypressus said:
The Director General explained that the Committee had recommended that this decision be taken after the detection of Ebola cases in the overcrowded city of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as in Uganda.
According to FAO estimates, the risk of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in the region remains very high and the risk of spreading out of the region remains low.
The latest outbreak of Ebola, the 10th in the DRC, began last summer. On the first day of August 2018, the local Ministry of Health announced an outbreak in North Kivu Province.
The World Health Organization has now notified 2,512 HIV cases, 1,676 deaths and 703 recovering cases. More than 133,000 vaccines have been administered, but many believe that it has helped to reduce the spread of the disease.
Doctors in the DRC record about a dozen cases of Ebola a day. The virus is transmitted by people through direct contact with the body fluids of an infected person, including infected blood, feces, vomiting or direct contact with contaminated instruments such as needles.
Source: The agencies
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