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Health workers prepare to transfer the body of Abineno Justine, a 38-year-old woman who died of the Ebola virus, to a coffin ahead of her burial in Bunia, Congo, Sept. 4. AP-Yonhap<\/p>\n
GENEVA \u2014 The head of the U.N. health agency is hailing \u201cencouraging signs\u201d in the fight against an Ebola outbreak in one part of eastern Congo, while warning that case counts are rising fast in another as officials race to tamp down the virus.<\/p>\n
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that signs of gaining ground against the Bundibugyo virus, the rare species behind the outbreak, have emerged in Ituri province. But he said that the situation is one of \u201cmany outbreaks in many places.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are now starting to see encouraging signs that we are gaining ground. In the most affected parts of Ituri province, transmission is going down,\u201d Tedros told reporters at the agency\u2019s headquarters in Geneva.<\/p>\n
South Kivu, he said, has reported no new cases since May.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut make no mistake, the epidemic continues to grow and continues to kill,\u201d Tedros said. He said more than 7,200 cases and more than 3,500 deaths have been reported across seven provinces.<\/p>\n
In North Kivu, \u201ccases are rising fast,\u201d Tedros said. The number of weekly cases has nearly doubled over the past two weeks, from about 100 to more than 200. \u201cThe area is so vast that it\u2019s hard to speak of a single epidemic. It\u2019s many outbreaks in many places.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO\u2019s director for epidemic and pandemic management, said that \u201cwe can be cautiously optimistic about what is happening, but I think we need to be realistic about the road that\u2019s ahead of us. Looking at trends takes time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last week, officials in Congo said that the world\u2019s fastest-growing outbreak of the disease on record had now spread to seven provinces in the African country, and was showing no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health workers prepare to transfer the body of Abineno Justine, a 38-year-old woman who died of the Ebola…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84],"class_list":["post-900144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}