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The disease has killed more than 1,500 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in just over two months, causing deaths faster than officials have ever recorded.
Eastern Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,500 people and infected nearly 3,500, surpassing every prior outbreak in speed and raising urgent questions about a virus strain with no approved vaccine or treatment. Official data released Thursday put the death toll at 1,521, with 3,442 total cases recorded as of Tuesday. Those numbers represent […] The post Congo's Ebola death toll blows past 1,500 in fastest-growing outbreak ever recorded appeared first on American Almanac .
Eastern Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,500 people and infected nearly 3,500, surpassing every prior outbreak in speed and raising urgent questions about a virus strain with no approved vaccine or treatment. Official data released Thursday put the death toll at 1,521, with 3,442 total cases recorded as of Tuesday. Those numbers represent roughly a 50 percent spike in about one week, a rate of spread that dwarfs every Ebola outbreak since the virus was first identified in 1976. The Associated Press reported that the current crisis has "killed more people at a quicker rate than any previous outbreak," including the 2014, 2016 West Africa epidemic that had been considered the worst on record. That earlier outbreak killed more…Open
The number of confirmed measles cases in the U.S. has hit 2,318, surpassing the total reported for all last year, according to newly updated data from the CDC.
