France confirmed, this Wednesday (24), the first case of Ebola in the country. According to the news agency Reuters, citing the French Ministry of Health, the patient is a doctor who was on a mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is an outbreak of the virus.
It was reported that the health professional is in isolation and authorities are now scanning and mapping people who may have possibly had contact with the infected person.indicated the ministry in a statement, adding that the
which has already infected more than a thousand people and caused 267 deaths, recorded the highest number of confirmed cases in the first month of any outbreak of the disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The current moment involves a rare variant of the virus, known as Bundibugyo, for which we still There are no approved vaccines or treatments. According to experts, the disease circulated for weeks undetected because local authorities were initially investigating another, more common strain of Ebola, whose tests came back negative.
*With information from AFP
