Armed with a new experimental vaccine, doctors believed that the most recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo wouldn't last as long or kill as many as the 2014 outbreak. But 10 months later, it is still spreading. McKenzieCNN reports.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo made the long-feared jump across borders with three cases confirmed Wednesday in Uganda, including the death of a 5-year-old boy who had the virus.
The World Health Organization and Ugandan health authorities said Tuesday that the Congolese boy had traveled from Congo on Sunday and entered Uganda with his family and sought medical care.The other two confirmed cases are the boy's 3-year-old brother and his grandmother, 50. They are being treated under isolation at the Bwera Hospital Ebola Treatment Unit, in the west of Uganda, the country's Ministry of Health said.
Authorities: Don't hug or kissUnlike the outbreak in West Africa that killed more than 11,000 people, there are now vaccines and experimental treatments to help stop the spread of the disease.However, the Congo outbreak has proven difficult to bring under control because of community mistrust and violent attacks on health care workers.
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