Tests \u201cconfirm a new positive case\u201d in Kabare territory in South Kivu, M23 spokesman Lawrence Kanyuka said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The case involved a \u201cperson coming from Kisangani\u201d, a major city in the eastern Tshopo province where no Ebola infections from the current outbreak have so far been recorded.<\/p>\n
The outbreak\u2019s epicentre is in northeastern Ituri province, with many cases in hard-to-access areas plagued by the Congolese east\u2019s litany of armed groups, and where measures to respond to the crisis have been slow to get off the ground.<\/p>\n
Desire Grodya, an official at a site for displaced people in Kigonze on the outskirts of Bunia, Ituri\u2019s provincial capital, said: \u201cWe have no sanitary facilities at all, not even a handwashing station, for 16,000 displaced people.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really crammed in here; it\u2019s total overcrowding … If the outbreak starts on the site, it will be catastrophic.\u201d<\/p>\n
This week, a brief riot erupted at the hospital in Rwampara, one of the outbreak\u2019s focal points located about 12 kilometres from Bunia.<\/p>\n
Young people who \u201cwanted to retrieve the body\u201d of a deceased patient \u201centered the hospital and burned down the two isolation tents\u201d, a hospital official told AFP.<\/p>\n
A healthcare worker was also injured by stone-throwing before law enforcement intervened, the official said.<\/p>\n
The isolation tents had only just been put up at the hospital.<\/p>\n
The outbreak comes at a time when humanitarian organisations have seen their budgets slashed, particularly as a result of US aid spending cuts under President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Cases have also been recorded in North Kivu province and neighbouring Uganda, where one person has died.<\/p>\n
A US citizen who contracted Ebola while working in the DRC is currently in hospital in Germany.<\/p>\n
While the WHO believes the risk from the Ebola outbreak is high both in the DRC and the wider central African region, it considers the risk of a worldwide pandemic to be \u201clow\u201d.<\/p>\n
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