The epidemic is progressing and is formidable because it kills adults but especially children. In one of its care centers in the DRC, the NGO indicates that out of 30 affected children only six survived.
To top it all off, there is no treatment or vaccine for the strain of the virus currently plaguing the DRC.
Researchers are using a formula used for the other strain of Ebola, known as the Zaire strain, hoping it will still have an effect.
You should know that Ebola is transmitted by contact with bodily fluids and that the virus causes serious hemorrhagic fevers.
The last epidemic of its kind caused more than 11,000 victims between 2013 and 2016 in Africa.
In one of its care centers in the DRC, the NGO indicates that out of 30 affected children only six survived.
Doctors Without Borders explains that it is even more dramatic for children, with a death rate rising to 80%.