India, Aug. 7 -- Agencies are on high alert amid reports that the rapidly spreading Ebola Bundibugyo virus species in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has infected 19 internally displaced people, killing five of them.
On Friday, UNHCR confirmed that at least five of the Ituri province's 69 displacement camps have reported Ebola cases, compounding what is already a devastating outbreak.
Local authorities report that there have been almost 4,000 cases of Ebola and and more than 1,800 deaths - centered on Ituri - since the outbreak was declared on May 15.
But the World Health Organization put the death toll in the latest 24-hour reporting period at 52, in addition to 99 new confirmed cases the country recorded.
googletag.cmd.push(funct...