Ebola Claims Half of Infected in DRC
The number of Ebola virus outbreak cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has risen to 1,033 deaths out of 2,536 confirmed cases, with most infections concentrated in the Ituri and North Kivu provinces in the eastern part of the country. Ongoing violence, shortages of medical supplies, and attacks on healthcare facilities are hampering efforts to control the epidemic, which belongs to the rare Bundibugyo strain that can have a fatality rate of around 40%. So far, there is no approved vaccine or treatment for this type of virus.
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