Congo’s Ebola death toll passes 1,500 as it struggles to halt spread
Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4‘There’s no salary’: DRC health workers tell of hardship as Ebola spreadslist 2 of 4Ebola deaths in DRC surge past 1,300 as virus ‘spreading like a wildfire’list 3 of 4Ebola infections in DR Congo surge to 3,200, with 1,405 deathslist 4 of 4Uganda declares end to Ebola outbreakend of listThe Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said that the sharp rise since last week partly reflects a backlog of cases and deaths that had not yet been confirmed or recorded.
The lack of a proven vaccine for Bundibugyo, which is the rarest of the four variants of Ebola known to affect humans, and the fact the epidemic is unfolding in an area of active hostilities between armed groups, producing a shortage of public health resources, has helped to allow the virus to spread “like wildfire”, a public health consultant who helped establish Africa CDC told Al Jazeera earlier this month.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has killed more than 1,500 people, as the spread of the virus continues to outpace response efforts, new statistics have revealed.
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