The Deadly Ebola disease has brokenout in DRC where seven people have been reported dead and others admited to clinics.
DRC Minister of Public Health, Felix Kabange Numbi said August 17, confirmed twelve cases, including seven deaths were recorded in Province Orientale.
Kabange has urged all Congolese to avoid touching any animal found dead in the forest or eating meat.
“We must also avoid touching unprotected blood, vomit or urine of a patient having viral haemorrhagic fever,” he adds.
The minister assured that “the faster these preventive measures are applied, the faster the spread of disease will be stopped.”
The last cases of Ebola were reported in the DRC in 2007 in the region of Mweka and Luebo (Kasai Occidental), killing one hundred and sixty-eight people on four hundred patients registered in four months.
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