The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has exceeded 1,000 cases.
The ever-growing outbreak has a case fatality rate of about 60 percent. There have been 629 deaths so far, including 564 people who died from confirmed cases of Ebola. The other deaths are from probable cases.
"We use words like 'cases' and 'containment' to be scientific, but behind every number is a person, a family and a community that is suffering," Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said in a statement Saturday. "This outbreak has gone on far too long.
It's the first Ebola outbreak in history to occur in an active war zone. North Kivu and Ituri, the two provinces where people have been infected, are awash with conflict and insecurity. Health and frontline workers are facing sporadic attacks from armed groups operating near the country's mineral-rich, volatile borderland with Uganda.
"Every member of the community," the country's health minister said, "has a role to play in stopping the spread of the virus."
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