{"id":1777,"date":"2026-06-12T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:10:20","slug":"ebola-outbreak-spreads-to-crowded-displacement-camp-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"Ebola outbreak spreads to crowded displacement camp in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>NAIROBI, June 12 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.N. refugee agency \u200cconfirmed the first Ebola-related deaths in a displacement camp in eastern Congo, as aid workers warned of a high risk the disease could spread rapidly in overcrowded sites.<\/div><div>The two victims were internally displaced people living in the Kpangba camp, which hosts 30,000 internally displaced people, the UNHCR said in a \u200breport published on Thursday.<\/div><div>The virus has now spread across three provinces since the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health \u200bemergency of international concern on May 17.<\/div><div>The affected provinces &#8211; Ituri, South Kivu and North Kivu &#8211; have been \u2060devastated by decades of conflict and are home to more than 5 million displaced people.<\/div><div>A Congolese health ministry report seen by \u200bReuters showed that a 60-year-old woman in the camp tested positive for Ebola on May 30. By then, she had broken out of \u200bquarantine and could not be traced by teams, the report said.<\/div><div>She died on May 31 and her daughter died on June 1, an aid worker with knowledge of the cases told Reuters, adding that their bodies had both tested positive for Ebola after their deaths.<\/div><div>Humanitarian workers later discovered the bodies, \u200bbut community members began pelting WHO vehicles as they tried to approach, the source said.<\/div><div>Mistrust of aid groups has been widespread \u200bin the nearly month-long outbreak in Congo, with communities sometimes burying highly-contagious bodies in secret to avoid health protocols.<\/div><h2>CRAMPED CONDITIONS<\/h2><div>Aid workers describe cramped conditions at \u200cthe \u2060camps, where sometimes hundreds of people sharing a toilet and open defecation is common.<\/div><div>&#8220;We are all really worried that Ebola in these camps will spread extremely quickly and that there will be panic and people will flee all over whether or not they&#8217;re contacts, whether or not they&#8217;re ill,&#8221; Caitlin Brady, country director for the Danish Refugee Council in Congo, told Reuters.<\/div><div>The Congolese health report for \u200bthe Kpangba camp listed eight contacts \u200bfor the mother, underscoring the \u2060risk of further cases within the camp. The International Organization for Migration, which provides support there, said it was concerned about further transmission.<\/div><div>&#8220;It&#8217;s a highly populated area so the risks of transmission are obviously \u200bhigher and worrying,&#8221; the aid source said. &#8220;These are tents with tarp walls, where do you \u200bisolate if you have \u2060symptoms?&#8221;<\/div><div>At another camp in Ituri province, Kigonze, the chief Desire Grodya Bapi said people had been falling ill and dying but he was not aware of any confirmed Ebola cases.<\/div><div>As of Friday, Congo had reported 676 confirmed cases and 136 deaths in an outbreak that has \u2060also spread \u200bto neighbouring Uganda, which has reported 19 cases.<\/div><div>The outbreak involves the rare Bundibugyo \u200bstrain of Ebola, for which there is no approved treatment or vaccine. 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