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Ebola Continues to Spread in Africa

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Topic: Ebola Continues to Spread in Africa
Posted By: Medclinician
Subject: Ebola Continues to Spread in Africa
Date Posted: May 18 2017 at 2:05pm
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The number of suspected cases of http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/e/ebola/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" rel="nofollow - Ebola has risen to 18 from nine in less than a week in an isolated part of http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/congothedemocraticrepublicof/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" rel="nofollow - Democratic Republic of Congo , where three have died from the disease since April 22, the http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/world_health_organization/index.html?inline=nyt-org" rel="nofollow - World Health Organization said on Thursday.

The W.H.O. was criticized for responding too slowly to https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/health/how-ebola-roared-back.html" rel="nofollow - an outbreak https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/health/how-ebola-roared-back.html" rel="nofollow - in West Africa https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/health/how-ebola-roared-back.html" rel="nofollow - in 2014 that left more than 11,000 people dead, and Dr. Peter Salama, the executive director of the organization’s health emergencies program, said at a briefing that it was essential to “never, ever underestimate Ebola” and to “make sure we have a no-regrets approach to this outbreak.”

The risk from the outbreak is “high at the national level,” the W.H.O. said, because the disease was so severe and was spreading in a remote area in northeastern Congo with “suboptimal surveillance” and limited access to health care.

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