Ebola Outbreak Stablilises in DR Congo

Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has stabilised, says the World Health Organization.

For the past 10 days, the death toll from the haemorraghic fever has remained at 36 and no new cases have been registered, the WHO said in a bulletin. The last case of hospitalisation dates back to October 11, according to the statement released to the press on Tuesday.

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A total of 75 people are believed to have been infected and the fatality rate in the outbreak went to 48 percent.

"We are very, very vigilant," WHO Kinshasa representative Leodegal Bazira told AFP. "It takes just one case to start up a cycle of transmission." The fact that the disease had been confined to the town of Isiro and its neighbourhood was a positive factor, he added.

An epidemic was declared in mid-August in the northeastern Orientale Province. But researchers have dated the outbreak back to May.

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To date, there is no treatment or vaccine for Ebola, which kills between 25 and 90 percent of those who fall sick, depending on the strain of the virus, according to the WHO.

The disease is transmitted by direct contact with blood, faeces and sweat, by sexual contact and by unprotected handling of contaminated corpses.

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DR Congo has recorded eight outbreaks of Ebola, one of the world's most virulent diseases, since the virus was first reported near a Congolese river that gave the disease its name in 1976.

Source-AFP