Ebola: Death toll in DRC rises to 1,540 — WHO
In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, a health worker as he examines patients for Ebola inside a screening tent, at the Kenema Government Hospital situated in the Eastern Province around 300km, , from the capital city of Freetown in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Over the decades, Ebola cases have been confirmed in 10 African countries, including Congo where the disease was first reported in 1976. But until this year, Ebola had never come to West Africa.
In spite of the insecurity, WHO insisted that frontline workers were doing all they could to tackle Ebola in North-east DRC. At the same time, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, announced that a “robust” probe found that 117 people had been killed in “several massacres” involving multiple villages in gold-rich Ituri, between June 10 and June 13.
She added that the attackers were reportedly from the Lendu community, echoing an earlier alert from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. He, however, cautioned that in Beni, a large town in North Kivu, Ebola had claimed nine lives since Monday. “The outbreak started there last year and spread to other regions, so it’s important to break the vicious cycle to contain very quickly the situation in Mabalako and Mandima, where we have more than 55 per cent of the cases coming from.”
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