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“This Is A Very Dangerous Outbreak” WHO Chief ‘Worried’ Over Ebola In DRC<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The director of the World Health Organization (WHO)\u00a0is urging a ceasefire between armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as raging conflicts in the region have hampered efforts to stop a new Ebola outbreak which is transmitting freely<\/strong>, reports the\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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So far 41 deaths had been reported as of August 1 between the DRC’s North Kivu province, including the cities of Beni and Mangina<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As the death toll in the outbreak declared on August 1 in DRC’s violence-wracked North Kivu province hit 41, the World Health Organization chief also called for the rapid roll-out of an unlicenced drug being used for the first time to treat Ebola patients<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva he feared conditions on the ground in the eastern province had created “a conducive environment for the transmission of Ebola.” –Daily Mail<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ghebreyesus, who traveled to the hot zones in Beni and Mangina in recent days, says that while he was worried before his trip – since his return “I am actually more worried<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

The latest outbreak now encompasses\u00a057 probable and confirmed cases<\/strong>\u00a0of Ebola in the DRC’s 10th outbreak since 1976, when the disease was first identified near the DRC’s Ebola river.<\/p>\n

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Beni was the scene of a 2016 massacre in which at least 64 people were killed by militants, bringing the toll to over 700 dead since October 2014.<\/p>\n

in North Kivu, health workers are being forced to navigate their response among more than 100 armed groups, and Tedros said that there have been 120 violent incidents since January alone.<\/p>\n

He said the region was sprinkled with so-called “red zones”, or inaccessible areas.\u00a0–Daily Mail<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“That environment is really conducive for Ebola … to transmit freely.”<\/p>\n

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“This Is A Very Dangerous Outbreak” WHO Chief ‘Worried’ Over Ebola In DRC The director of the World Health Organization (WHO)\u00a0is urging a ceasefire between armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as raging conflicts in the region have hampered efforts to stop a new Ebola outbreak which is transmitting freely, reports the\u00a0Daily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8811,2413,21270,223,232,21271,878,4014,4318],"class_list":["post-36749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-daily-mail","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-drc","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-north-kivu","tag-who","tag-world-health-organisation","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36750,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749\/revisions\/36750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}