The World Health Organisation is planning for the “worst-case scenario” after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conformed the first death in a new Ebola outbreak on Thursday.
On Friday nine other countries countries were issued with alerts, with the regional risk from the deadly disease being classed as “moderate”.
Eleven people are now confirmed to be infected with the highly infectious virus in the DRC, including three medical staff. The World Health Organisation (WHO) hopes to deploy a vaccine in the coming days.
The WHO said at least 17 people have died since inhabitants of a village in north-west DRC began showing symptoms resembling Ebola in December. However, those cases were not confirmed through testing. AOL.
