According to Dr. Pascal Mbukana, Chief Medical Officer of Mambasa Health Zone, among those affected by this disease, others had refused to be vaccinated after touching the corpses of people who died of the disease in that village.

He added that the residents of this entity also refused to allow the response team to decontaminate infected households, before pointing out that nine patients are being treated at the Mambasa Center Ebola Treatment Center.

It should be noted that a medical team organized on Friday, September 20, a field trip to vaccinate high-risk people, disinfect the affected households and raise awareness among the population to collaborate with the response team. In order to cut the chain of transmission of this epidemic continues to plague this region

In a Bulletin of the Multisectoral Committee for Ebola Response, since the beginning of this epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 3,157, of which 3,046 confirmed and 111 probable and 966 people healed.


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