The World \u200bHealth Organization said there have been 321 confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of \u200cCongo outbreak and 116 suspected cases, marking a large drop in the number of suspected cases as hundreds were ruled out after investigation.<\/p>\n
The agency said on Tuesday there had been 48 deaths and six people had recovered in Congo. The Congolese authorities first put out \u200bthe new case numbers on Monday.<\/p>\n
In Uganda there have been nine confirmed cases and one associated \u200bdeath, WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier told reporters in Geneva. Later, Uganda’s health ministry confirmed six \u2060more new cases of Ebola, bringing the total confirmed in the country so far to 15, the health ministry \u200bsaid on Tuesday. The ministry said in a statement on its X account that the six were confirmed among contacts \u200bof other confirmed cases.<\/p>\n
The WHO said on Friday that there were\u00a0906 suspected cases\u00a0of the Bundibugyo Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including 223 suspected deaths that were being investigated. Later Jean Kaseya, director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, \u200bsaid in an\u00a0FT op-ed, opens new tabpublished on Sunday that more than 1,100 suspected cases were being investigated.<\/p>\n
HUNDREDS OF CASES DISCOUNTED AFTER \u200bINVESTIGATION<\/strong><\/p>\n When asked why the latest figures showed a significantly lower number of suspected cases, Lindmeier said the data suggested hundreds of cases \u200chad \u2060been discounted.<\/p>\n “They have been cleared out and have either other diseases or have just had fever and nothing else,” he said. Lindmeier said the numbers would fluctuate over time as people get tested.<\/p>\n A suspected case includes anyone who is picked up by surveillance or who presents with symptoms at a health centre, he added. Confirmed cases include only those \u200bwho have tested positive for \u200bEbola Bundibugyo.<\/p>\n Testing has been \u2060a challenge in this outbreak as initially the more common tests used for Ebola did not detect the Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no approved vaccine, and capacity has \u200bbeen limited.<\/p>\n The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website also listed 116 suspected \u200bcases, and \u2060said: “On May 29, the DRC Ministry of Health updated their total suspect case count to remove suspected cases that have been ruled out after investigation and suspected deaths that are pending the results of ongoing investigation.”<\/p>\n The Africa Centres for Disease Control \u2060and Prevention \u200bannounced the outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, Congo’s 17th Ebola \u200boutbreak, on May 15, and the World Health Organization swiftly declared it a public health emergency of international concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The World \u200bHealth Organization said there have been 321 confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of \u200cCongo outbreak and 116 suspected cases, marking a large drop in the number of suspected cases as hundreds were ruled out after investigation. The agency said on Tuesday there had been 48 deaths and six people had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2362,2854],"tags":[72,75,62],"class_list":["post-21034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa","category-featured","category-health","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-ebola","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21035,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions\/21035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}