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The World Health Organization is allocating 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and maintaining the public health emergency of international concern. Twenty thousand doses are reserved for a phase 3 clinical trial against the Bundibugyo strain. Rwanda and neighbouring countries are tightening border screening.
Congolese authorities report 2,011 deaths and 4,381 confirmed cases. The WHO reveals that the outbreak, declared on 15 May, had actually begun in February — early cases having been attributed to malaria and typhoid. "We are chasing the virus, it is ahead of us." The response is hampered by armed conflict, poor roads and unpaid health workers.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed nearly 400 people and spread to a fourth province. Kinshasa has banned mass gatherings as an attack on a treatment center complicates the response, while the world watches with concern and distance.
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