Medical personnel in protective suits. File photoMOSCOW, May 19The Ebola strain that killed three people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be more dangerous, Mayum Barka, head of the local branch of the non-profit medical organization Baweye, told Bloomberg. Bureau of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Africa previously reported the detection of three cases of Ebola infection in the city of Mbandaka in the northwestern Equatorial province of the DRC, all three have died. The first case began experiencing symptoms on April 5 and died 16 days later.»It hurts the liver.» Scientists talk about an outbreak of an unknown virus «It seems that although the reproduction rate is quite low, the virulence of the virus is very high,» said the head of the department of Alliance for International Medical Actions. Barka noted that in all three patients, severe blood loss was the first symptom. During the country's two previous Ebola outbreaks, the disease most often began with fever or fatigue, and only 15% of those who fell ill began to bleed, he said. epidemics in 2018 and 2020. He believes that the detection of only two cases after the first infection suggests that the strain is less contagious. 2021, the Ministry of Health of the DR Congo announced the end of the thirteenth outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the country. The disease caused by the Ebola virus is an acute viral infection that affects humans and some animal species. The Ebola epidemic broke out in West Africa in 2015 and mainly affected three countries: Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. According to WHO, during the last major epidemic, 28.6 thousand people became infected with Ebola, more than 11.3 thousand died. on noncommunicable diseases in Moscow
