The Ministry of Health in the DRC has warned that the number of people who have died from Ebola has reached 80 | News about Ebola

The Africa CDC worried that the outbreak of the Bundibugyo crisis could spread quickly due to the large population.

At least 80 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from a new outbreak of Ebola, officials say, as health workers rush to test and trace people with the disease.

About 250 suspected cases of haemorrhagic fever have been recorded in eastern DRC, according to the health ministry, while one person has died in Uganda. This has raised concerns that the disease may spread to neighboring countries.

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“The Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine, no real medicine,” DRC Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba said on Saturday.

“This type has a very high risk, which can reach 50 percent.”

The outbreak, the seventh in the country, was confirmed on Friday in the northeastern part of Ituri, which borders Uganda and South Sudan. At that time, 65 suspected deaths had been confirmed; that number rose to 80 on Saturday.

According to Mr. Kamba, who is suspected to be a nurse who went to the hospital in Bunia district capital on April 24, has symptoms of Ebola.

The disease has been confirmed so far in three health districts in Ituri, including Bunia, and the areas of Rwampara and Mongwalu, where the epidemic is widespread.

Only 13 blood samples were tested at the National Institute of Biomedical Research; eight were diagnosed with Bundibugyo syndrome. The remaining five could not be analyzed due to an insufficient number of samples, the health minister said.

‘Very difficult’

The African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said it is worried that the epidemic could spread quickly, citing several reasons, including the population density in Ituri towns and the proximity of the affected areas to Uganda and South Sudan.

The agency also warned of increased cross-border travel to and from the affected area, as well as potential complications for the spread of Ebola.

Medical aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), are responding to the explosion.

“The number of cases and deaths we are seeing in such a short period of time, including the spread across multiple health zones and across borders, is very concerning,” said Trish Newport, MSF’s emergency program manager.

Jagan Chapagain, secretary general of the IFRC, said: “The scale of the epidemic, and the risk of cross-border transmission, underscores the need for timely, coordinated and sustained action.

Ebola it was first identified in 1976. Three types of the disease are responsible for many epidemics in Africa, although vaccines are only available in Zaire.

Without treatment, up to 90 percent of cases can die.

The Bundibugyo species, which causes the epidemic, was not identified until 2006.

Thousands of people in Africa have contracted Ebola since it was first identified 50 years ago, with nearly 15,000 deaths.