A boy has his temperature checked in Goma on July 31, 2019. A second person has died of Ebola in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, a major transport hub, the country’s pointman for the epidemic told AFP on July 31, 2019.PAMELA TULIZO / AFP
“A total of 12 people from various centres on the outskirts are undergoing testing after the response team triggered the alert protocol,” it said in a statement. A one-year-old girl became the third patient to test positive for Ebola in Goma, local officials said Wednesday.His wife, also infected, and the young girl were in stable condition on Saturday, the presidency said.
The Ebola virus causes fever, vomiting and severe diarrhoea, often followed by kidney and liver failure, internal and external bleeding.