Ebola Outbreak Spreads To DR Congo City - WHO Releases Alarm

The dreaded Ebola disease raging through DR Congo, has reportedly spread into the city, a development which has sparked serious tension.

File photo: An Ebola camp

 

According to the BBC, the World Health Organisation has reported that the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly hard to control.

 

Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a case in Mbandaka, a city of a million people about 130km (80 miles) from the area where the first cases were confirmed earlier this month.

 

The city is a major transportation hub with routes to the capital Kinshasa.

 

Forty-two people have now been infected and 23 people are known to have died.

 

Ebola is a serious infectious illness that causes internal bleeding and often proves fatal. It can spread rapidly through contact with small amounts of bodily fluid and its early flu-like symptoms are not always obvious.

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