Ebola outbreak had been reported in the city of Mbandaka, located in the DRC’s northwest
Ebola is likely to re-emerge in different regions across Africa in the future considering that it is a water-borne disease, Ngoy Nsenga, a leading expert at theMr Nsenga, who made this known in an interview with Sputnik, said that the likelihood of the re-emergence of the virus had made broader vaccination imperative.
“Ebola will appear again somewhere, but we need to be ready to circumvent that outbreak and avoid that it expands to the magnitude of the outbreaks that we had in the past.“The big deal is how do we prevent it, even if we have few cases, from expanding and having a huge outbreak that expands even beyond the border of the DRC,” Mr Nsenga warned.“Vaccination will definitely be a way to go, but at this point, I don’t think this vaccine is given outside of the outbreak.
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