It comes as health facilities in some of the worst-hit regions are attacked amid ongoing violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There have been more than 1,000 suspected cases of Ebola in the DRC since the outbreak was declared on May 15, including nearly 250 deaths, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Several infections and one death have been confirmed in neighbouring Uganda.<\/p>\n
However, the true reach of the outbreak in the DRC, which is thought to have been circulating before it was detected, is likely to be much wider, the World Health Organization has warned.<\/p>\n
The Sao Paulo government said that despite the suspected case, “the technical assessment indicates that the risk of the disease being introduced into Brazil and South America remains very low”.<\/p>\n
Recovered Ebola patients recount illness<\/p>\n
Five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus, the head of the World Health Organization said during a visit to Bunia in eastern Congo.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour people will be discharged today and there was one that was discharged the day before yesterday,\u201d WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during the opening of a new Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, we\u2019re still working on vaccines and treatments but that doesn\u2019t mean that people cannot recover from Ebola.”<\/p>\n
The WHO said a patient had recovered from the Bundibugyo virus, the current species of Ebola, which has no approved treatment or vaccine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was the first documented recovery of a confirmed Bundibugyo patient during the current outbreak.<\/p>\n
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Ezo Etienne, a Congolese health worker who recovered from the Ebola virus, has now been discharged. (Reuters: Gradel Muyisa Mumbere)<\/p>\n
Baraka Bulambulu, one of those who recovered, told The Associated Press on Sunday that community members feared contracting an unknown illness from them, keeping their distance while delivering food and medicine.<\/p>\n
He said the uncertainty was overwhelming, as he and other patients believed they might die without knowing what disease they had, though testing eventually confirmed Ebola.<\/p>\n
“Being able to come out of this alive is an immense source of happiness,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Many people who were in the same situation died.”<\/p>\n
Ezo \u00c9tienne, a nurse, said his symptoms began during ward rounds when he suddenly felt dizzy, then rapidly deteriorated into vomiting, intense itching, severe diarrhoea and extreme weakness.<\/p>\n
He was tested seven times before Ebola was confirmed.<\/p>\n
His treatment remained purely to treat the symptoms: medications to control vomiting, fluids to prevent dehydration and pain relievers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“That was all they could provide,” he said.<\/p>\n
He urged the public and healthcare workers not to dismiss early symptoms such as vomiting and headaches, warning that misinformation leads many people to believe they have been poisoned rather than seeking hospital care.<\/p>\n
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