The head of Africa’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that the Ebola outbreak in Congo could be the worst ever, saying that currently, tens of thousands of contacts of those ill with the disease had not been traced.
“If we don’t stop the outbreak very soon it will be worse than what we had in West Africa and eastern DRC,” Africa CDC Director-General, Jean Kaseya told a virtual meeting of African heads of state in Burundi.
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He was referring to the outbreak that affected Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in 2014-2016 that killed over 11,000 people and a less deadly 2018 outbreak in Congo.
Reuters
