The CDC hopes to send more experts to Congo in the next few weeks to train personnel in the fight against a raging Ebola outbreak that has already killed nearly 600 people and is far from under control, the CDC director said Thursday.
Health workers are seen inside the"red zone" of an Ebola treatment center that was attacked early on March 9 in Butembo in North Kivu province, Congo. By Lena H. Sun Lena H.
“This is a complicated response,” Redfield said. The outbreak, now entering its eighth month, “is not under control” and is likely to last through this year and into 2020, he said. “This late in the outbreak, and half of the cases are presenting dead,” he said, an indicator that an unusually high number of infected people are not being identified when they fall ill.
Redfield spoke with The Washington Post after he and other U.S. officials testified before a Senate panel about the ongoing outbreak, which has sickened at least 932 people and killed 587. It was his first testimony before Congress since his appointment a year ago. Eastern Congo has been the site of some of the world’s largest-scale violence in the past quarter-century, making the effort to contain this Ebola outbreak enormously complicated. The latest armed attacks forced Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, to pull out of operating two of its Ebola clinics.
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