Health teams re-open ebola centres after militant attacks

December 20, 2019 - Congo (DRC), Africa - Health teams have returned to Ebola response centres in Ayola and Biakato, in eastern DRC that were shut down after attacks by militia last week. Twenty seven Ebola cases were confirmed in North Kivu and Ituri provinces in the week through Dec.10 against an average of 7 in the previous three weeks. Militia fighters killed four people and wounded several in attacks on two Ebola response centres and health workers were largely cut off from the disease hotspots. WHO said that the majority of the 27 new cases were linked to a single chain of transmission in Aloya, near Beni, in which that man was a potential source of infection for 17 people.