Ebola outbreak kills more than 5,300 people – Africa CDC

Africa’s latest Ebola outbreak has killed more than 5,300 people, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the continent’s top health agency.
In mid-May, the DRC declared its 17th Ebola outbreak, a deadly disease transmitted through contact with bodily fluids that causes haemorrhagic fever and has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa over the past 50 years.
According to data shared with AFP by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Monday, the outbreak, which has spread to other countries on the continent, has killed 5,376 people — 5,372 in the DRC and two each in Kenya and Uganda.
A total of 10,444 cases have bee...