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Ebola outbreak in Congo proves to be the worst in the history of the nation
Two hundred people died of lethal haemorrhagic disease and 300 cases were reported.
FILE: Health workers wear protective equipment while preparing to participate in suspected Ebola patients at Bikoro Hospital, the epicenter of the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Image: AFP
PRETORIA – The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) Ebola outbreak proves to be the worst in the nation's record history.
Two hundred people died of lethal haemorrhagic disease and 300 cases were reported.
At least 25 people were inoculated against the Ebola outbreak in the eastern DRC.
Vaccination efforts and attempts to isolate and circumscribe the disease first recorded in Congo in 1976 are hampered by violence against medical volunteers. At least two of them were killed by locals.
About half of the victims, the tenth part of the epidemic of Ebola in the DRC, come from Benni, a city of 800,000, near the border with Rwanda and Uganda.
(Edited by Mihlali Ntsabo)
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