Addis Ababa, July 11 (IANS) Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Director-General Jean Kaseya and World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus are set to visit the epicentre of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) next week, as part of a joint mission aimed at accelerating outbreak response.This came after a meeting between heads of the two organisations in Geneva, Switzerland, where discussions focu…
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Kinshasa, May 16 (IANS) Roger Kamba, health minister of Congo, warned Saturday that the newly declared Ebola outbreak in the eastern province of Ituri involves the Bundibugyo strain, which has a high fatality rate and carries a significant risk of further spread.”The Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine and no specific treatment,” Kamba told a press briefing in the capital Kinshasa, adding that the strain has “a very high lethality rate which can reach 50 per cent.”Congo declared a new Ebola outbrea…