Kenya has confirmed a third Ebola case, involving a 65-year-old woman who is a close relative of the country’s first two infected individuals. The woman entered quarantine before symptoms appeared. Meanwhile, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s outbreak has expanded to an eighth province, North Ubangi, where two cases have been detected, though officials have not yet made an official announcement. The virus has now affected multiple provinces across the DRC, with Ituri province reporting the highest number of cases. According to the CDC, the outbreak has infected over 9,200 people and caused more than 4,400 deaths.
The situation has been particularly severe among schoolchildren in the DRC, with 10 students dying from the Bundibugyo Ebola virus despite schools reopening only recently. Twenty-five confirmed cases have been identified among schoolchildren in Ituri province, with seven survivors still receiving treatment. Humanitarian organizations report that approximately seven children have died daily from Ebola since the outbreak began in May, totaling 961 child deaths. Currently, no vaccine or specific treatment exists for the Bundibugyo virus, but researchers in Uganda have initiated a phase 1 clinical trial to test a candidate vaccine’s safety and immune response effectiveness.
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