Africa’s top public health agency says the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is still not under control six months after it was declared. “If we don’t stop this outbreak now, it would be the worst Ebola outbreak that the world will have,” Jean Kaseya, director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), told Reuters news agency on Sunday. Since the outbreak was announced on May 15, more than 11,200 cases and 5,500 deaths have been recorded, according to government data. Kaseya said that more than “80 percent of new cases emerge outside contact lists and over 65 percent of deaths” have occurred in the community outside health centres.
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