Ebola spreads to remote, militia-run Congo territory - Premium Times Nigeria

Walikale is hundreds of kilometres away from where previous cases near the border with Uganda and Rwanda occurred.

The ministry data also showed a third case confirmed in South Kivu region, which on Friday reported its first cases, more than 700 km south of where the first case was detected. Walikale is controlled almost entirely by a Mai Mai ethnic militia, surrounded by forest and difficult to access because of poor roads.Ebola has killed at least 1,900 people in Congo over the past year, the second biggest toll in the disease’s history, after 2014, when 16 outbreaks in West Africa killed 11,300 people.

Both vaccines were being deployed and mobile treatment units and experimental treatments had shown the promise of a 90 per cent survival rate.

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