Explained: Congo’s Ebola outbreak might be controllable now. Here’s how | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: Congo’s Ebola outbreak might be controllable now. Here’s how | Explained News, The Indian Express

Written by Mehr Gill |Updated: August 16, 2019 5:10:23 pm

Explained: Congo’s Ebola outbreak might be controllable now. Here’s how

On July 17 the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak in DRC as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the highest declaration of alarm used by the organisation.

Health workers wearing protective suits tend to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation tent in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday, July 13, 2019. (AP)

The haemorrhagic fever caused by the Ebola virus may finally be curable as two experimental drugs have shown survival rates of as high as 90 per cent in a clinical trial, which was carried out in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).