Ebola im Kongo: Ebola-Ausbruch nach 100 Tagen weiter nicht unter Kontrolle
100 Tage sind am Samstag seit Bekanntgabe des Ebola-Ausbruchs im Kongo vergangen, mehr als 5.000 Krankheitsfälle wurden nachgewiesen. Doch es könnte alles noch deutlich schlimmer sein.
Over 5,000 cases and more than 2,500 deaths have occurred within 100 days of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organization's (WHO) director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described the epidemic as far from being under control, stating that it is the second largest recorded Ebola outbreak and spreading faster than any previous one.
The number of confirmed cases was nearly ten times higher than in the worst outbreak in West Africa from 2014 to 2015, and the death toll was more than seven times higher during the same period. Maximilian Gertler, a tropical medicine doctor at Berlin's Charité and a former aid worker for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the Congo, emphasized that there is a significant number of unreported cases and deaths.
Since the outbreak was declared, over 2,000 deaths have been reported, compared to around 300 deaths during the same time frame in the West Africa epidemic. Most new cases were not initially registered as contacts, indicating that the full extent of the outbreak remains unknown.
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