The World Health Organization’s top doctor has traveled to the Ebola hot zone to help bring the unfolding crisis under control as suspected cases of the especially deadly strain of the disease top 1,100.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Meanwhile, authorities in Brazil were looking into two suspected cases.World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who travelled to the capital of the eastern province of Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the ground zero of the current outbreak this weekend, said those who contract the virus could survive the strain of the disease.“Even without vaccines or specific therapeutics, people can survive Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus if they receive timely healthcare and seek treatment as soon as symptoms appear,” he said in a post on X Monday after visiting a newly opened Ebola treatment facility in Bunia on Sunday.World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visits health workers at the Evangelical Medical Center in Bunia.Moses Sawasawa / APOn Sunday, the WHO announced that four nurses who were being treated for Ebola have been discharged from a hospital in Bunia after recovering from the disease.
A laboratory worker had also recovered earlier this week, the agency said, bringing the total number of people who have recovered from the virus in the DRC to five.In an op-ed in Financial Times on Sunday, Dr.
Jean Kaseya, Director-General of The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said more than 1,100 suspected cases are being investigated in the DRC and neighboring Uganda as of May 30, with the two countries having reported 263 confirmed cases and 43 confirmed deaths.The WHO reported the same number of confirmed deaths Sunday, but said there were 291 confirmed cases between the DRC and Uganda.
Those numbers stood at 128 confirmed cases and 17 deaths a week ago, according to ...