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The
Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed a case of
Ebola in Wangata, one of the health zones of the regional capital of Mbandaka ― which is home to almost 1.2 million people.
The World Health Organization had reported two probable Ebola cases in Wangata earlier this week, affecting brothers
returning from a funeral in Bikoro, the epicenter of the outbreak. According to Dr. Oly Ilunga Kalenga, the country’s minister of health, one case later tested positive for Ebola.
...When Ebola enters a more urban zone, there are more people to spread the disease and more contacts for health authorities to trace, Jha explained, making it much harder to track and contain. As of Monday, 432 contacts
were being monitored for Ebola.
“The turning point is if additional cases spawned by [this Wangata case] start popping up,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, who led parts of the 2014 Ebola response for the Obama administration. Konyndyk is now a senior policy fellow for the Washington-based Center for Global Development.
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