Geez Louise! 2020 has been merciless and it is not ending its assault on the population.
Coronavirus, cannibal rats, murder hornets, killer bees, Joe Biden gaffes, riots. Will it ever end? Apparently not.
Reuters is reporting that the nation of Congo has been with a second Ebola outbreak. The highly infectious, highly deadly virus has led to six new cases so far, including four deaths. This is terrible news because this would be the third outbreak in just two years.
The newswire reports:
Six cases have been detected, four of which have died in the city, a trading hub of 1.5 million people on the Congo River with regular transport links to the capital Kinshasa.
Mbandaka is 1,000 km (620 miles) from an ongoing outbreak that has killed over 2,200 people in North Kivu province by the Uganda border, where containment efforts have been hampered by armed conflict.
The new outbreak is Congo’s eleventh since the virus was discovered near the Ebola River in 1976.
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The Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever and is spread through direct contact with body fluids from an infected person, who suffers severe vomiting and diarrhoea.
This comes as Congo is also dealing with the coronavirus. The African nation has 4,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 72 deaths.
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