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The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said Sunday that the number of children killed by the Ebola virus in the east of the country had reached an unprecedented rate, mainly because of the bad health practices in clinics run by so-called practitioners of traditional medicine..
The impact on children was particularly high in Beni, the epicenter of the last epidemic. According to data from the Ministry of Health, out of 120 confirmed cases of Ebola, at least 30 were children under 10 years old and 27 of them died..
Many children with malaria in a region near Beni were infected with Ebola in clinics run by traditional healers, as they also treated people with the disease, said Jessica Elunga, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health. the health..
"There is an extraordinary increase in the number of children injured and killed by Ebola in Beni," the spokeswoman told Reuters,)
"Traditional healers use the same tools to treat people, so the child who enters the clinic of the traditional healer with malaria gets out with an Ebola virus and dies a few days later."He said.
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