Ebola: Les 10 pays africains qui risquent d'être touchés par l'épidémie
Ten African countries are at risk of being affected by the Ebola virus, in addition to the Democratic Republic of Congo - the epicenter of the epidemic - and Uganda, the African Union's health agency (Africa CDC) warned on Saturday.
"We have ten countries at risk" of being affected, said Africa CDC President Jean Kaseya at a press conference. These countries are South Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Congo, Burundi, Angola, Central African Republic, and Zambia.
There are nearly 750 suspected cases of Ebola and 177 suspected deaths in the DRC, a country of about 100 million people where the epidemic is "spreading rapidly", the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday.
This epidemic, the 17th to affect the DRC, "is the second largest we know of in the world," Mr. Kaseya also stated.
Ebola causes a deadly hemorrhagic fever, but the virus, which has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa over the past 50 years, is less contagious than Covid or measles.
In the absence of a vaccine and licensed treatment against the Bundibugyo strain of the virus responsible for the current outbreak, measures to try to contain its spread rely mainly on compliance with barrier measures and rapid detection of cases.
AFP
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