A second person has died of Ebola inside the Democratic Republic of Congo after the disease revived, three months after authorities announced the latest uprising in the country, the WHO said Thursday.
The second victim was a 60-year-old female farm worker who died Wednesday, a World Health Organization rural office said.
The woman was linked to the first death in the Bienna health zone in the North Kivu region, he said.
In that first case was a woman, the wife of an Ebola survivor, who died on February 3rd.
The WHO African office at the time said the first victim had died in an area that had previously been one of the main events of the latest uprising, near the town of Butembo.
Since the West African Ebola crisis of 2013-16 – which left 11,300 dead across the region – the WHO has looked at each new revolution with great concern, treating the most Congolese epilepsy soil as an international health emergency.
DR Congo had announced on November 18 that the epilepsy, which lasted nearly six months in the northwestern region of Equateur, had passed away. It was the only Ebola uprising in the country, claiming 55 lives out of 130 cases.
He was the last man diagnosed with Ebola in Equateur on October 16th.
Extensive use of vaccines, given to more than 40,000 people, has helped reduce the disease.
The virus is returning in the northeast of the country – an area plagued by violence between armed groups – coming as the great African country is also fighting the Covid-19 uprising. alone, with 681 deaths to date.