Emmett Livingstone
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51 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
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And according to Congolese health authorities, the virus has now spread to half of the province's health zones.
Now, it's hard to gauge the scale of this crisis, but there are clues that suggest it's much larger than the official figures suggest.
Ituri, a province in eastern Congo about the size of West Virginia, is the epicenter of the outbreak, with about 94% of recorded cases in Congo.
And according to Congolese health authorities, the virus has now spread to half of the province's health zones.
Now, it's hard to gauge the scale of this crisis, but there are clues that suggest it's much larger than the official figures suggest.
The situation is pretty bad, and health workers are still fighting an uphill battle to bring this outbreak under control.
Since it was declared on May 15th, confirmed cases of Ebola have spread across a wide expanse.
Ituri, a province in eastern Congo about the size of West Virginia, is the epicenter of the outbreak, with about 94% of recorded cases in Congo.
And according to Congolese health authorities, the virus has now spread to half of the province's health zones.
Now, it's hard to gauge the scale of this crisis, but there are clues that suggest it's much larger than the official figures suggest.
Over the weekend, 71 new cases were confirmed across three provinces in eastern Congo.
And this jump, according to Congolese health authorities, showed that there is, quote, rapid and ongoing community transmission.
The Congolese government has stopped publishing figures on the total number of suspected cases, but aid officials say that they suspect them to be in the thousands.
Wow.
How's the health response going?
So there's a massive international effort to stop the spread of the virus that's underway with financing from the US, the EU, UN and NGOs.
But according to health workers, this is still really in its early days.
Ituri has been decimated by decades of conflict and its health infrastructure is extremely weak.
In Mongualu, the town the worst hit by the virus, NGOs have started building new treatment facilities from the ground up in order to handle the number of cases.
So at the moment, in some instances, Ebola patients are turning up to hospitals that are essentially construction sites.
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