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WHO says woman's Ebola
death in hospital was 'trigger event'
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[August 03, 2018]
GENEVA (Reuters) - The
death and unsafe burial of a 65-year-old woman in Mangina in Democratic
Republic of Congo was the critical event that set alarm bells ringing in
the latest Ebola outbreak in late July, the World Health Organization
said on Friday.
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 WHO's emergency response chief Peter Salama said seven of the
woman's immediate family later also died from Ebola-like symptoms,
and potential cases were now being traced in 10 localities.
Apart from Mangina in North Kivu province, there were now suspected
cases in the local town of Beni and neighboring Ituri province,
Salama told a regular U.N. briefing in Geneva.
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(Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Alison Williams)
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