Congo’s Ebola outbreak is second largest on record: Latest data
Democratic Republic of Congo’s fast-spreading Ebola outbreak is now the world’s second largest on record, government data showed on Friday, as transmission continues to outpace efforts to contain the epidemic.
The latest figures about the outbreak indicate that only West Africa’s 2014 to 2016 outbreak was bigger, with 28,616 cases and 11,310 deaths recorded across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the World Health Organization.
Less than three months since the outbreak began, the disease has killed five times as many people as previous outbreaks had by the same stage, according to Africa’s top public health agency, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
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