Clinical Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
The French Ministry of Health has reported, in a statement, the first case of Ebola in the country. The patient is a doctor who has returned from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the outbreak has already claimed 277 lives.
Last Saturday, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared that the Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), following consultation with the organisation’s member states. By 15 May, 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths had been reported in three health zones: Rwampara, Mongbwalu and Bunia.