Ebola patients ESCAPE quarantine in city of 350,000 people
EBOLA patients have escaped quarantine in a city of 350,000 people amid fears the outbreak could be on verge of getting worse.
By Henry Holloway
DailyStar.co.uk
23rd May 2018
Three patients escaped from quarantine in the city of Mbandaka in north western Democratic Republic of Congo.
Two of the three have been found dead, while a third patient has been found alive.
Medecins Sans Frontieres’ (MSF) mission in the city confirmed the incident as they work to treat cases of Ebola.
The death toll of the outbreak has reached 27 as health chiefs crackdown on the virus.
World Health Organisation bosses have previously warned spread in the city could mean a repeat of the 2014 outbreak – which killed over 11,000.
A spokesman for WHO told Daily Star Online: “The appearance of a confirmed case in Mbandaka is very concerning.
“WHO and partners are working together to rapidly scale up the search for all contacts of the confirmed case in the area.
“Controlling a virus once it has reached a large urban area is particularly challenging.
“The last big Ebola outbreak in 2014-15 showed the devastation that can occur when the virus gains a foothold in an urban setting.”
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