Africa: Over 3,000 Killed by Deadly Virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo This Year – And It's Not Ebola
20 September 2019
The Conversation (Johannesburg)
By Jeremy Rossman, University of Kent and Matthew Badham, University of Kent
Ebola outbreaks, such as the current one in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has claimed 2,074 people's lives, are widely covered in the media. But another virus is ravaging the DRC with minimal publicity. That virus is measles.
Although measles has a much lower mortality rate than Ebola (around 2% compared with around 60%), there have been over 165,000 suspected cases of measles, with over 3,200 deaths in the DRC since the start of 2019.
In a recent speech, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), said that he was "embarrassed to talk only about Ebola" in response to questions on recent developments in the DRC.
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So, measles isn't as deadly per se but the more cases and the more deaths!
