Health Alerts

Community resistance continues in some areas in response to the measures required to limit the spread of Ebola – vaccination, contact tracing, 21-day monitoring and safe burials. This has allowed new cases and deaths to increase substantially this week, with 14 more cases reported over a 3-day period. Read more. The health ministry’s Ebola Surveillance Dashboard puts the confirmed and suspected cases at 188 with 118 deaths. The latest WHO situation report notes that ‘Beni, Butembo and Mabalako continue to report an increasing number of new cases, indicating the persistence of Ebola virus transmission in these areas.’