Ebola Fears Grip Eastern Congo as Outbreak Spreads: Residents of Ituri Province Live in Dread of Deadly Disease's Return. A sense of panic is gripping the residents of Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, six years after the last Ebola outbreak in the region subsided. The World Health Organization has announced a new outbreak of the disease, and locals are bracing themselves for the worst, citing the lack of a vaccine for the Bundibudyo strain as a major concern. With cases of Ebola already reported in Mongbwalu, a mining town, residents are worried that the disease could spread rapidly to other areas, putting thousands of lives at risk. As the situation unfolds, the economic impact of the outbreak is also looming large, threatening to exacerbate the already dire living conditions in the region.
Residents of Ituri province fear spread of disease and economic impact of outbreak six years after the last“On public transport, in bars and at mass gatherings, everyone is talking about Ebola,” said Gloire Mumbesa, a resident of Mongbwalu, a mining town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He said cases of the disease had been reported locally and panic was engulfing the area because of the lack of a vaccine for the Bundibudyo strain. “The fear is that this disease may spread to many other areas.”Residents of Ituri province in eastern DRC, where the World Health Organization announced an outbreak of Ebola last week, are living in growing fear of the possible continued spread of the disease and its deadly impacts, nearly six years after the last outbreak in the region ended. Continue reading...
