With Over 2000 Dead, Priority is to ‘Break the Chains’ of Ebola Transmission

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With Over 2000 Dead, Priority is to ‘Break the Chains’ of Ebola Transmission

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The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Bundibugyo region has resulted in over 2,000 deaths. According to the World Health Organization, enhanced local surveillance and interventions are critical to breaking the chains of transmission and controlling the epidemic.

Over 2000 people have died so far in the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the only way to break the chains of transmission is via scaled-up local surveillance, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “Most concerningly, we see a high proportion of deaths in communities instead of treatment […]

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