The Ebola virus is scary again, a new outbreak in the Congo: There are victims, at least two in just one week.
Another person who contracted the Ebola virus died this week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. So another outbreak could have formed just three months after the nation survived the second worst outbreak of the virus in history.
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The World Health Organization and the country’s Ministry of Health stated that this death comes a week after the death of a 42-year-old woman in North Kivu Province. The victim, the wife of an Ebola survivor, entered the intensive care unit on February 4 and died the same day.
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Ebola outbreak: the disease is frightening again
The woman was buried on February 5, but not according to proper burial practices to prevent the spread of Ebola; During previous outbreaks, handling of dead bodies was minimized and implemented by trained teams. During her illness, she visited three health centers after seeking treatment for symptoms of nosebleeds on January 25. In short, the diagnosis was not only timely, it would have arrived very late.
As of February 8, health investigators were able to monitor a total of 117 contacts with the woman. It is unclear whether the victim announced today was in direct contact with the unnamed woman, who died a week earlier. This new cluster represents the 12th Ebola outbreak in the Congo. Thousands of people have died from the virus in the Congo in recent years. The epidemic that began in 2018 and the World Health Organization declared its end in June 2020 has killed more than 2,000 people. Ebola is a disease with a very high mortality rate.
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