Rapid Risk Assessment: Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri Provinces, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Sixth Update

Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 8/7/2019. This 11-page report is the sixth update of a rapid risk assessment originally produced on August 9, 2018. It addresses the impact of active chains of Ebola virus disease transmission reported outside the outbreak ’s epicenter, specifically in Goma, a provincial capital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Goma has an airport serving international flights to several African countries, including the Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Zambia, which increases the risk that European Union/Eu ropean Economic Area (EU/EEA) citizens living and traveling in the DRC get infected and eventually introduce the disease to the EU/EEA. (PDF)
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