Ebola 2025 Update: Affected Localities In DRC Have Now Imposed Travel Restrictions, As Case Numbers Continue To Increase, In Kasai Province...

Just as there is more good news on Mpox to report (see immediately prior post), we see some tough news out of Kinshasa, DRC -- as that capital tries to prevent the current outbreak from reaching perhaps five million households -- in the various urban centers.

Towns with ongoing cases in Kasai province are imposing travel bans, even as they ring vaccinate contacts and contacts of contacts, among the known case clusters. Here's Reuters -- of just an hour ago -- on it all:

. . .KINSHASA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Towns affected by Congo's latest Ebola outbreak have erected checkpoints to restrict population movements, officials said this week, as cases increased slightly and aid workers warned that the response was underfunded.

Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry last week declared the country's first Ebola outbreak in three years, with 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths. It is the first outbreak in the country's Kasai province since 2008. . . .

Now you know -- unfortunate, but smiling into the crisp Fall sunshine here -- just the same. Bike rides ahead.

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