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The WHO said the case fatality rate in DR Congo stands at 34 percent, meaning about one in three patients have died.
Healthcare workers carry a patient on a stretcher suffering from Ebola in Bunia, Ituri, in the east of the DR of Congo. (AFP photo)
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) is the “fastest growing" ever, African health authorities warned on Thursday, as the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 600 confirmed deaths.
The latest WHO figures showed that DR Congo has recorded 1,759 confirmed Ebola cases since the outbreak was declared in mid-May, including 600 deaths.
“This is the fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever, not only among the previous Bundibugyo outbreaks, but all the different viruses that are causing Ebola," Wessam Mankoula, head of emergency preparedness and response at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), told the media.
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