AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Congo's Ebola death toll hits 930 as outbreak outpaces every one on record
Congo's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has now killed at least 930 people in just over two months, and health officials cannot track where most new infections are coming from. Congo's Ministry of Health reported 2,344 confirmed Ebola cases as of Saturday, with 37 new deaths recorded in a single 24-hour window, one of the highest single-day […] The post Congo's Ebola death toll hits 930 as outbreak outpaces every one on record appeared first on American Almanac .
Congo's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has now killed at least 930 people in just over two months, and health officials cannot track where most new infections are coming from. Congo's Ministry of Health reported 2,344 confirmed Ebola cases as of Saturday, with 37 new deaths recorded in a single 24-hour window, one of the highest single-day tolls since the crisis began. The ministry's statement, issued overnight into Monday, offered a grim snapshot of a disease spreading faster than the government or international agencies can contain it. The outbreak was declared on May 15 in eastern Congo. In roughly nine weeks it has become, by multiple accounts, the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. The pathogen responsible is the Bundibugyo…Open
