After officials received more test results from suspected cases, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) dropped their Ebola case count to 55, including 28 deaths. There are now 38 confirmed cases, 14 probable cases, and 3 suspected cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an update.
The outbreak total stands at 66, including 38 confirmed, 14 probable, and 14 suspected cases.
"The response is having an impact in ... two locations," a WHO official says.
At-risk nations share the Congo River, Bikoro Lake, and porous borders with the DRC.
The WHO says clinicians in treatment centers will make decisions on what drugs to use, based on what's most helpful to patients and with patients' informed consent.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reported six more suspected cases of Ebola, including five in Bikoro and one in Wangata in its latest outbreak update. All of the new cases are known contacts of previously recorded cases.
Of 53 cases, 37 are confirmed, 13 probable, and 3 suspected; deaths remain at 25.
The Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry yesterday and today ruled out some suspected cases based on lab tests and confirmed 2 more in the remote Iboko outbreak location, dropping the outbreak total to 50 cases, including 37 confirmed and 13 probable, with no suspected cases. No new deaths were reported, keeping that total at 25.
Cases now total 51, and vaccine uptake has been high among more than 900 case contacts identified.
Vaccination is under way in two remote areas as officials get closer to testing as many as five treatments.
