摘要
THE Ebola virus has made another appearance on the African continent. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on May 11 that they were informed about an outbreak of the vLrus by the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). At least nine people are suspected of being infected, and four have died as of May 21. The Ebola virus disease is often fatal in humans, transmitted from wild animals and spread via human-to-human transmission. In 2014, the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were at the center of the largest Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 11.310 deaths, and now they have been Ebola-free since June 2016 according to the WHO.
THE Ebola virus has made another appearance on the African continent. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on May 11 that they were informed about an outbreak of the vLrus by the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). At least nine people are suspected of being infected, and four have died as of May 21. The Ebola virus disease is often fatal in humans, transmitted from wild animals and spread via human-to-human transmission. In 2014, the West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were at the center of the largest Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 11.310 deaths, and now they have been Ebola-free since June 2016 according to the WHO.