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Progress against Ebola in Congo will be lost if violence continues, WHO says
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that its progress with the fight against the dreaded Ebola virus will be lost if fighting continues around the disease hotspots of Beni and Butembo.
That much submission was made by the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday.
“We have reached a critical point in the Ebola response,” WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. “After an intensification of field activities, we were seeing hopeful signs in many areas, including a recent decrease in cases in Beni.
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“These gains could be lost if we suffer a period of prolonged insecurity, resulting in increased transmission. That would be a tragedy for the local population, who have already suffered too much.”
Reports say the outbreak of the disease touted to be the second worst ever has killed 356 of the 585 people infected during the almost six-month outbreak.
A weekly update from WHO also reveals that one-fifth of the cases have occurred within the past three weeks.
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