The number of confirmed Ebola cases \u200cin the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen above 9,000, government data showed on Tuesday, as responders \u200bstruggle to slow transmission in multiple \u200bhotspots.<\/p>\n
The latest situation report from Congo’s public \u2060health institute put the number of cases at \u200b9,066 and deaths at 4,381.<\/p>\n
The outbreak, caused by \u200bthe Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, was declared in May and has become the largest and deadliest in Congo’s \u200bhistory, overtaking the 2018-2020 epidemic. The strain \u200bcurrently has no approved vaccines or treatments.<\/p>\n
Globally it is \u200csecond \u2060only to the 2014-2016 West African outbreak, which infected over 28,600 people and killed more than 11,000 across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, \u200baccording to \u200bthe World \u2060Health Organization.<\/p>\n
The current outbreak has also affected other countries.<\/p>\n
Uganda reported 20 cases \u200band two deaths earlier in the \u200byear \u2060but was declared Ebola-free in August.<\/p>\n
Last week Kenya confirmed its first imported case, a Kenyan national who \u2060had \u200btravelled from Congo via Uganda \u200band died in Nairobi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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