New Ebola outbreak in DRC ‘truly frightening’
Written by Millennium on June 14, 2019
The head of a major medical research charity has called the latest outbreak of Ebola in central Africa “truly frightening”. Nearly 1,400 people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dr Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust, said the epidemic was the worst since that of 2013-16 and has showed “no sign of stopping”.
Two people have also died in neighbouring Uganda, the first cases of Ebola reported in the country.
A five-year-old boy infected with the virus died on Tuesday and a woman died on Wednesday, the Ugandan health ministry said.
SOURCE: BBC News
