The United States of America has imposed temporary restrictions on its citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due to the Ebola epidemic.
elchi reports that a statement regarding the matter has been issued on the website of the US Embassy in the DRC.
In the statement, it is reported that all US citizens in the DRC and those entering the country must wait 21 days outside the DRC before entering the US, and those who do not meet this condition will not be accepted on flights to the US.
The statement notes that this measure was implemented as the Ebola epidemic continues to spread in various regions of the DRC.
In the Ebola epidemic declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 15, the number of confirmed cases has reached 2,011, and the number of deaths has reached 754.
The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that the current epidemic is spreading faster than ever before and that approximately 80 percent of new cases originate from individuals not on contact tracing lists. This means that undetected chains of transmission continue, and the actual number of cases may be 2-4 times higher than the official figures.
According to health authorities, there is no confirmed treatment or vaccine for the current epidemic caused by the “Bundibugyo” virus, a rare variant of Ebola.
Ebola has caused the deaths of thousands of people in Africa.
The Ebola virus, which causes a type of hemorrhagic fever, first emerged in 1976 with simultaneous outbreaks in Nzara, Sudan, and Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo.
The outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began in a village near the Ebola River, which is why the disease was named after this river.
The Ebola virus spread in West Africa in December 2013. During the epidemic that occurred between 2014 and 2017 in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the virus infected 30,000 people and killed more than 11,000 of them.
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