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Health workers at the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola outbreak are protesting over unpaid wages. They abandoned several health facilities on Thursday, demanding payment.
Some pregnant women in eastern Congo are avoiding hospitals over fears of a rapidly growing Ebola outbreak, and more of them are dying around childbirth.
Congo has counted 3,822 Ebola cases. WHO’s own unpublished estimate puts the outbreak three to four times larger, above 10,000 infections.
Uganda has maintained since the outset that its cases were linked to the larger outbreak in eastern Congo’s remote province of Ituri, which borders Uganda.
By Clement Bonnerot and Jessica Donati DAKAR, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The Ebola epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to surpass 4,000 cases this week and has been described as the fastest spreading on record since it was officially declared in May.
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Ebola has killed more than 1,700 people in eastern Congo in the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease, data showed. As of Tuesday, 3,802 cases had been recorded, with 1,707 deaths, according to the latest government update.
Some health officials have attributed the severity of the outbreak to aid cuts, with key supplies, equipment and operational support no longer reaching responders at the scale needed.
Health Canada has authorized Moderna to launch a clinical trial for a vaccine targeting the Bundibugyo form of the Ebola virus, which continues to surge throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo,