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Congo declares new Ebola epidemic, 1,000 km from eastern outbreak
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo declared a new Ebola epidemic on Monday in the western city of Mbandaka, more than 1,000 km (620 miles) away from an ongoing outbreak of the same deadly virus in the east.
Health Minister Eteni Longondo said four people who died in Mbandaka were confirmed as positive cases following testing at the national biomedical laboratory in the capital Kinshasa.
“We have a new Ebola epidemic in Mbandaka,” Longondo told reporters. “We are going to very quickly send them the vaccine and medicine.”
The outbreak was confirmed by World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who tweeted: “This outbreak is a reminder that #COVID19 is not the only health threat people face.”
Congo has been struggling to put an end to a nearly two-year-old Ebola outbreak near its eastern borders with Rwanda and Uganda, which has killed more than 2,200 people, the world’s second-deadliest outbreak of the disease on record.
It was days away in April from declaring the end of that outbreak, its tenth since the virus was discovered in 1976, when a new chain of infection was confirmed in the east. However, no new cases have been detected there in over 30 days.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo declared a new Ebola epidemic on Monday in the western city of Mbandaka, more than 1,000 km (620 miles) away from an ongoing outbreak of the same deadly virus in the east.
Health Minister Eteni Longondo said four people who died in Mbandaka were confirmed as positive cases following testing at the national biomedical laboratory in the capital Kinshasa.
“We have a new Ebola epidemic in Mbandaka,” Longondo told reporters. “We are going to very quickly send them the vaccine and medicine.”
The outbreak was confirmed by World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who tweeted: “This outbreak is a reminder that #COVID19 is not the only health threat people face.”
Congo has been struggling to put an end to a nearly two-year-old Ebola outbreak near its eastern borders with Rwanda and Uganda, which has killed more than 2,200 people, the world’s second-deadliest outbreak of the disease on record.
It was days away in April from declaring the end of that outbreak, its tenth since the virus was discovered in 1976, when a new chain of infection was confirmed in the east. However, no new cases have been detected there in over 30 days.
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It's just flu
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I blame Trump lack of funding
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Just imagine how scared people over here would be if we had an outbreak of something as deadly as ebola. Thered be a million deaths from stress induced heart attacks in the first 24 hours. Half the population would want to stay locked down for a decade.
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It very likely came from another bunch of fruit bat eaters as it happens. Why are they not educated about this, still eating them in China. Easier to stop these things at source than wait for them to infect the world.
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Was Dominic Cummings there as well?
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Dave takes the p*** but the virus was another strain of influenza... they couldn't make it any more obvious ffs
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It's what you end up with if you don't impose law and order in a democracy.
Let's face it best thing would be if everyone was wiped out pronto and the country turned into a huge natural big game park. |
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"Half the population would want to stay locked down for a decade."
and the other half would only go out (more likely rush out, in a stampede) if given an opportunity to scream at Brexit bogeymen (that'll be every day ending in a Y, then)  |