Ebola conflict in Congo ‘largely contained,’ says WHO

The World Health Organization says there is “cautious optimism” that a Ebola conflict in Congo competence be circuitous down.

In a news released this week, a UN health group and Congolese officials contend that somewhat over a month into the response, serve widespread of a fatal pathogen has “largely been contained.”

WHO says a conditions in civic areas — where officials had feared delivery competence take off — has remained ease for a final several weeks. Attention given afterwards has been focused on remote farming regions mostly permitted usually by mud roads and motorbikes.

To date, there have been 38 reliable cases, including 14 deaths. 

More than 3,000 people have been vaccinated with an initial vaccine in a first-ever try to stop an rising Ebola epidemic.

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