DR Congo’s worst Ebola epidemic ever passes 7,000 cases
DRC detected the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo virus in mid-May; nearly 3,400 people have since died.
More than 7,000 Ebola cases have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) worst outbreak of the deadly disease, according to figures from Congolese authorities.
The DRC officially detected the latest outbreak in mid-May, but experts suspect it had been spreading under the radar for weeks before.
Of the 7,022 registered cases, 3,398 people have died, according to DRC authorities. Currently, 837 people are in isolation or receiving treatment.
“We are very worried because we don’t know which child comes from which family or what the health status of the members of that family is,” Angele Magani, a mother of a schoolboy in Bunia, Ituri’s provincial capital, told the AFP news agency.