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WHO expects more Ebola cases in DRC

Date: Aug 17, 2018

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that it could not be certain that it had identified all people exposed to the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu region.

More than 500 people have been vaccinated so far against the disease in Congo's latest outbreak, marked by a total of 78 confirmed and probable cases including 44 deaths, it said. Some 1 500 people have been identified as contacts of infected people.

"We don't know if we are having all transmission chains identified. We expect to see more cases as a result of earlier infections and infection developing into illness," WHO Spokesperson, Tarik Jasarevic, told a Geneva news briefing.

--Reuters--

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