Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 20 May 2019, 06:31 am Print
Moscow (Sputnik/UNI) More than 1,200 people have died from the Ebola virus disease since August in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country's Health Ministry said.
On May 10, the ministry reported that 1,105 had died from the Ebola virus disease since August.
"The situation as of Sunday, May 19, 2019: a total of 1,816 cases [are registered, including] 1,728 confirmed and 88 probable ones. [A total of] 1,209 have died and 482 have been cured," the ministry wrote on Twitter.
The 10th outbreak of Ebola in the DRC in forty years was declared by the national authorities on August 1.
The Ebola virus is transmitted to humans from wild animals and is estimated by the World Health Organization to have a 50-percent fatality rate. Ebola is named after the DRC's Ebola River, near which the virus was discovered by Belgian microbiologist Peter Piot and his team in 1976.
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