Health workers treat an unconfirmed Ebola patient, inside a MSF (Doctors Without Borders)-supported Ebola Treatment Centre on Nov. 3, 2018 in Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
“We are very concerned by the epidemiological situation in the Butembo area,” said John Johnson, project co-ordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in the city. New cases are increasing quickly in the eastern suburbs and outlying, isolated districts, the medical charity said.
“We are extremely concerned about the size of the vaccine stockpile,” the World Health Organization’s emergencies director, Dr. Peter Salama, told the STAT media outlet in an interview this week, saying 300,000 doses is not sufficient as urban Ebola outbreaks become more common.
Given the years of conflict in eastern Congo, it’s essential that households trust why the health workers are there, Dr. Nafo-Traore said.