DR Congo Ebola cases pass 9,000 in deadliest Bundibugyo outbreak on record
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DRC Health Ministry data on Tuesday listed 9,066 confirmed cases and 4,381 deaths, a fatality rate near half of known cases, in a Bundibugyo-strain outbreak that is the largest and deadliest in the country’s history and globally second only to the 2014–2016 West Africa epidemic. The strain has no approved vaccines or treatments. Kenya reported a fatal imported case involving travel from the DRC through Uganda to Nairobi; Uganda had 20 cases and two deaths earlier in the year before being declared Ebola-free in August. The outbreak was announced in mid-May, may have started as early as February, and has spread to seven northern and eastern provinces as community mistrust hampers containment.
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