Despite vaccination and treatment efforts, the epidemic in Central Africa has resulted in 1,700 deaths and counting
This week marks the anniversary of the current Ebola outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). First declared on August 1, 2018, in the nation’s province of North-Kivu, it has sickened more than 2,500 people and killed close to 1,700—making it the second-worst outbreak after the one between 2014 and 2016 in West Africa, which sickened more than 28,000 people and killed more than 11,000.
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