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Africa's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that an Ebola outbreak spanning Congo and Uganda has killed more than 200 people in its first month and stands as the worst known outbreak at this stage in recorded history.
With 894 confirmed cases and up to 35,000 suspected potential contacts identified, the scale of the crisis is placing an extraordinary burden on regional health systems.
A Record Pace of Spread The pace of transmission sets this outbreak apart from every comparable episode in the public health record.
Wessam Mankoula, a medical epidemiologist at Africa CDC, said the current outbreak is running three times worse than a previous outbreak in Uganda in 2000, which recorded 281 confirmed cases at the equivalent point in its progression.
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