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"(This epidemic) has overwhelmed the first epidemic recorded in the annals of the DRC in Yambuku in 1976. To date, there have been 319 cases and 198 deaths, confirmed the Congolese Minister of Health, Oly Ilunga Kalenga, in a statement quoted by Agerpres.
A total of 298 cases of haemorrhagic fever were reported in the region, including 263 confirmed and 35 probable since the tenth outbreak of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, affecting the provinces of Kivu (north) (east) and Ituri (northeast).
In mid-October, the Congolese authorities declared that they were facing a "second wave" of an undetermined "Ebola" epidemic in Beni, North Kivu province. Since the beginning of the vaccination, August 8, 2018, 26,135 people have been vaccinated, including 13,825 in Beni, but new cases of Ebola are still in Africa.
The Ebola epidemic, which began in the Bikoro region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has negative consequences, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it is preparing for the "worst case scenario". dark".
The first outbreak of Ebola was reported in Yambuku in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976 and totaled 318 cases examined and 224 deaths.
The virus is transmitted by direct contact with blood or body fluids and is all the more virulent as the process is more advanced, achieving a 90% mortality rate.
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