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The epidemic is located in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, where the insecurity situation – where there are more than a hundred armed groups – complicates medical intervention.
A woman washes her hands to avoid Ebola and, in the background, a health worker is monitoring the area. Photo: EFE
Kinshasa, October 28 (EFE). Ebola outbreak who is advancing in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo (CDR) for almost three months, currently totals 266 possible cases, including 168 deadaccording to the latest report on the epidemic prepared by the Congolese Ministry of Health.
Of the total infections, 231 were confirmed in the laboratory, the remaining 35 corresponding to cases that could not be scientifically corroborated.
Similarly, the number of deaths corresponds to 133 laboratory positive cases and 35 deaths classified as "probable cases".
In addition, another 42 cases are currently under investigation.
The number of people who have conquered the disease rises to 70 and that of the vaccinated to 23 thousand.
Data is updated until October 27, about three months after the official start of the outbreak.
The epidemic is located in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, where the insecurity situation – where there are more than a hundred armed groups – complicates medical intervention.
The different international health organizations that collaborate in the containment plan also point out that the resistance of some communities to treatment is another additional difficulty.
This epidemic is the second declared in 2018 in the country and the worst of the last decade in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This was confirmed on August 1, just one week after the conclusion of another epidemic that affected the northeast of the country.
The Ebola virus is transmitted through direct contact with contaminated blood and body fluids, transmits hemorrhagic fever and can reach a 90% mortality rate if it is not treated in time.
The most devastating global epidemic was reported in March 2014, with cases dating back to December 2013 being in Guinea Conakry, a country from which it intensified to Sierra Leone and Sierra Leone. Liberia.
In January 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the end of this epidemic, which claimed 11,300 deaths and more than 28,500 deaths, although the UN agency itself recognizes that it could be a conservative figure
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