Ebola spread to new Congo area shows 欠陥d 返答 - 援助(する) 労働者s

By Nellie Peyton

DAKAR, Aug 16 (Thomson Reuters 創立/基礎) - Ebola's spread to a new part of Democratic 共和国 of Congo is a 乱すing 調印する that health 労働者s are failing to keep 跡をつける of high-危険 people on the move, 援助(する) 機関s said on Friday.

A woman and her child were 確認するd to be the first two Ebola 事例/患者s in Congo's South Kivu 州 this week, after travelling more than 700 kilometres (430 miles) south from where they likely caught the 病気, によれば 公式の/役人s.

The 突発/発生 had 以前 been 含む/封じ込めるd to North Kivu and Ituri 州s, with a few 事例/患者s in 隣人ing Uganda.

Ebola has killed at least 1,900 people in the past year, the biggest (死傷者)数 after 11,300 died in West Africa in 2014-2016.

The 24-year-old woman had been identified as a high-危険 接触する of an Ebola 患者 in the city of Beni last month, but travelled with her children by bus, boat and road for hundreds of miles before she died on Tuesday night.

"This 最高潮の場面s a 乱すing 傾向 of 事例/患者s 起こる/始まるing from 現在の hotspots which then leave the area and, にもかかわらず the 支配(する)/統制する 対策 in place along the 回廊(地帯), are not (悪事,秘密などを)発見するd," said Whitney Elmer, country director for charity Mercy 軍団.

"It is very 関心ing, 特に given the 成果/努力s over the last few months to 規模 up the 返答," she told the Thomson Reuters 創立/基礎.

Ebola 原因(となる)s vomiting, bleeding and diarrhoea and spreads 経由で 接触する with bodily fluids of the 感染させるd.

A 打開 this week showed there may be a cure as two 実験の 麻薬s were 設立する to 上げる 生き残り 率s.

But stopping the 突発/発生 still depends on tracing and 監視するing people who might have been exposed to the 病気 to 妨げる is spreading その上の, health 労働者s said.

"This is very indicative of one of the challenges we 直面する, which is that people are so 動きやすい," said Margaret Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization (世界保健機構).

世界保健機構 (軍隊を)展開する,配備するd a 早い-返答 team and 計画(する)s to vaccinate everyone in the village where the woman died, Harris said.

The 返答 has been 妨害するd by 民兵 暴力/激しさ 原因(となる)ing people to 逃げる and by 不信 of health 労働者s, which has driven 患者s to hide symptoms and 避ける (犯罪,病気などの)発見.

South Kivu 現在のs 類似の challenges to North Kivu ーに関して/ーの点でs of insecurity and 衝突, said Jamie LeSueur, Ebola 返答 操作/手術s 経営者/支配人 for the International 連合 of Red Cross and Red 三日月 Societies (IFRC).

"This is a stark 思い出の品 that we are still far from 含む/封じ込めるing and ending Ebola in DR Congo," LeSueur said. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Nellie Peyton, editing by Lyndsay Griffiths; Please credit the Thomson Reuters 創立/基礎, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers 人道的な news, women's and LGBT+ 権利s, human trafficking, 所有物/資産/財産 権利s, and 気候 change. Visit http://news.信用.org)

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