Third Ebola patient dies in Congo
Medical staff wearing protective gear enter an isolation room to treat a patient at the Ebola treatment center in Beni, DR Congo. (Photo: AP)
This is information provided by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Case death from Ebola The third in the Congo is a 48-year-old man. It is the most recent confirmed case in the 14th outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever in Congo, which has hit the city of Mbandaka, the capital of Equateur province.
World Health Organization information, health workers have started injecting Ebola vaccine last week and since then immunized more than 350 people, including more than 250 people who were in contact with the patient Ebola.
An Ebola treatment center in the town of Butembo, eastern Congo, October 4, 2019. (Photo: Reuters)
The first Ebola death in Congo during the latest outbreak was reported on April 23 and a total of three deaths have been confirmed so far.
Congo has seen 13 previous Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2018-2020 in the eastern part of the country, which killed nearly 2,300 people, the second-highest number in recorded history. this disease.
The last outbreak, also in Eastern Congo, infected 11 people between October and December and killed six of them.
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