The number of infections with the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached 326 and more than 200 have died, the country's health ministry said on Saturday.
As of Friday, the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri had 326 cases of infection, of which 291 were confirmed. At the same time, 201 people died.
“No other epidemic in the world has been as complex as the one we are experiencing now,” the statement said. Since the first Ebola outbreak in 1976, there have been ten in DR Congo. The epidemic in North Kivu and Ituri "surpassed" the first.
Ebola virus disease is an acute viral infection that affects humans and some species of animals. The Ebola epidemic broke out in West Africa in 2015 and mainly affected three countries: Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. According to the WHO, during the last major epidemic, 28.6 thousand people were infected with Ebola, more than 11.3 thousand died.
The current Ebola outbreak in DR Congo began in late July.