Ebola outbreak ‘growing faster, wider’ as DRC death toll passes 2,500: UN
Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak ‘global emergency’ as infections pass 5,000: WHOlist 2 of 3How Ebola became the deadliest outbreak in DR Congo’s historylist 3 of 3DR Congo to receive 70,000 doses of Ervebo vaccine as Ebola infections surgeend of listThe official called for more funds to be put to work to try to control the spread, noting that the existing pool of money will run out within weeks.
Efforts to control the outbreak have also been complicated by the lack of a vaccine for the rare Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, which causes severe haemorrhagic fever.
Sounding the alarm that the outbreak is “spreading faster and wider” than ever before, the UN’s Senior Ebola Coordinator Julien Harneis reported that more than 2,500 people have now died.
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