To be sure, this is in part a delay in counting, since it took a week for the virus to bloom out, after the highly viral-loaded funerals for the first victims were held -- all before the local people knew the victims had died of Ebola, and not any ordinary flu. Here's the latest, from CIDRAP:
. . .As outbreak responders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continue to gauge the scope of a recently declared Ebola outbreak in Kasai province, 68 suspected cases have now been identified, 20 of them confirmed by lab tests, Ngashi Ngongo, MD, PhD, MPH, who leads incident management for the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said today during a weekly health emergencies briefing.
The initial cases were reported from two health zones, mainly in Bulape but also in Mweka. Ngongo said suspected cases are now reported in two more health districts, Mushenge and Dekese. . . .
Ngongo said the suspected cases include several people who died before the Ebola outbreak was identified. He added that many people attended their funerals, some traveling from other health zones, and may have been exposed to the virus. . . .
Now you know. Off-grid for rest of a sunny morning -- and the claim is that Kirk's assassin is now in custody. We shall see.
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