The World Health Organization, WHO, on Friday said that Ebola appears to be under control in the city of Goma in Congo but it has flared in other parts of the country, where aid workers are combating insecurity and disinformation on social media.
Head of WHO’s health emergencies department, Dr. Michael Ryan, said that the latest infections include the mysterious case of a woman in her 70s with no known history of travel or visitors.
He said that the woman, in the remote village of Pinga in the northeast of Democratic Republic of Congo, may have caught the deadly haemorrhagic fever by eating bushmeat or from another animal source.
Latest figures show that nearly three thousand cases have been confirmed, including one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five deaths, since the outbreak began a year ago, the second biggest toll in the disease’s history.
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