KINSHASA: The \u200bDemocratic Republic of Congo said \u200con \u200cSaturday \u200bthe \u200cnumber \u2060of \u200bconfirmed Ebola \u2060cases in the country \u2060had \u200crisen \u200cto \u200b956, \u200cincluding 247 \u200cdeaths. On Friday, \u200cconfirmed cases were at \u2060933, \u2060and deaths were 245.<\/p>\n
At least 30 people have died since the start of May in one camp for displaced civilians in northeastern Congo, a death rate that camp officials said was unprecedented, with some confirmed to have died from Ebola in a sign the disease could be spreading fast there.<\/p>\n
It was not possible to confirm the causes of all the deaths because patients or their relatives in Kigonze camp in Bunia \u2014 the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo \u2014 had until Thursday refused testing, a camp spokesperson and aid organization Caritas said.<\/p>\n
However, all had symptoms including headaches, fever and vomiting, which are associated with Ebola, a camp spokesperson, a bereaved father, three aid sources and a civil society leader told Reuters.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople didn\u2019t just die like this before,\u201d camp spokesperson Desire Grodya Bapi told Reuters. The deaths in Kigonze, which has more than 15,000 residents, raise fears that Ebola \u200cmay be circulating \u200cundetected among eastern Congo\u2019s over 5 million displaced people, with resistance to testing compounding the challenge \u200bposed \u200cby \u2060severely limited sanitation \u200bmeasures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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