The number of Ebola hemorrhagic fever cases has risen to 11 and one death has been recorded in Bikoro, Equateur Province in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), said Congolese Minister of Health on Thursday evening.

 

刚果卫生部长周四晚上称，赤道省比科罗埃博拉病毒出血热案例已经上升到11个，另有一人死亡。

 

According to Orly Ilunga, currently seven people, of which two cases previously¹ confirmed in the laboratory, are hospitalized at the General Hospital in Bikoro. Another health center in the Iboko Health Zone reported 4 new cases and one Ebola death on Wednesday night.

 

"One of the peculiarities² of the current epidemic³ is the fact that three health professionals have been infected. Health professionals being the first actors in the government's response to Ebola, this situation is of concern to us," said Ilunga at the press conference in Kinshasa.

 

Nevertheless, he stressed that it is important to know that there are several types of hemorrhagic fever besides the Ebola virus disease in the country.

 

"As the tests of the first samples have revealed, not all suspected cases are Ebola, and only the analysis of the samples taken will make it possible to accurately⁴ follow the evolution of the current epidemic," he added.

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