Congo is already counting two dead after the second Ebola outbreakas announced today by the World Health Organization.
Genetic tests have shown that an infection confirmed last week is a new event unrelated to the previous Ebola outbreak, the end of which was announced in December, the WHO said on Twitter.
The second patient who succumbed was a woman, a relative of the first case, said a representative of the WHO.
The first patient, a 31-year-old student, showed symptoms on April 5, but did not seek medical help until after a week. On April 21, he was taken to an Ebola treatment center in Bandaka, the capital of Ecuador in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he died the same day. The first case had about 74 contacts being monitored.
Ebola with 2,300 dead
13 outbreaks of it have been recorded in the country in the past Ebolaincluding one in 2018-2020 in the east that cost the lives of nearly 2,300 people, the second largest account of the disease reports Reuters.
The 2021 Ebola outbreak in Benny in the east of the country lasted “two months and nine days”, with 11 confirmed cases, of which 9 were fatal. In 2020, in Bandaka, the hemorrhagic fever virus had killed 55 people out of a total of 130 reported cases.
Source: News Beast
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