A European Union Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management tours a treatment centre for Ebola response set up by Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) International NGO, during her visit to assess the response to the Ebola outbreak, as authorities intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Rwampara outside Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sunday. (Photo: Reuters)
DAKAR — Africa's top public health agency said on Monday that the number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo had risen to 544.
Of those cases, 515 had been in Congo's Ituri province, the epicentre of the outbreak, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention presentation showed.
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