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The head of the World Health Organization Saturday arrived in eastern Congo\u2019s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus still spreads faster than the response, despite better-organized health facilities and new aid arrivals.<\/p>\n

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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to visit a treatment center and meet local authorities, health workers and affected families in Bunia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best way to address this is to provide all the necessary support to fight the disease at its epicenter and to continue offering every assistance needed,\u201d Tedros told reporters late Friday.<\/p>\n

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The WHO said Friday authorities have reported 906 suspected cases and 223 suspected deaths. Neighboring Uganda has confirmed nine cases and one death, the Ugandan ministry of health said Friday.<\/p>\n

The Bundibugyo virus, the current kind of Ebola, has no approved treatment or vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a difficult situation, and we recognize that. But the Democratic Republic of Congo has faced the Ebola virus many times before. We are confident that it can once again bring this outbreak under control,\u201d Tedros told reporters Friday after meeting with Congo’s Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka.<\/p>\n

Medical aid donated by the European Union arrived in Ituri, the heart of Congo\u2019s Ebola outbreak, on Thursday, with more shipments expected over the next eight days. The U.S. announced $80 million in additional aid on the same day, bringing its total commitment to more than $112 million.<\/p>\n

Response efforts at Bunia’s Rwampara and General hospitals appear more organized, with additional staff, protective gear and medical supplies, though patients continue arriving around the clock, an AP reporter observed on Friday.<\/p>\n

The response has not kept pace with one of the fastest-spreading outbreaks on record, Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, warned on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNever before has an Ebola outbreak recorded so many cases so soon after its declaration,\u201d Dr. Alan Gonzalez, MSF\u2019s deputy director of operations, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNobody knows the true scale and severity of this outbreak,\u201d Gonzalez said, calling for immediate expansion of testing, faster deployment of aid workers and sustained access for medical supplies.<\/p>\n

Dangers faced by health workers have been heightened by anger among residents over the stringent medical protocols for handling the victims\u2019 bodies, which clash with local burial rites. Residents have launched at least three attacks against health centers.<\/p>\n

Attacks in Ituri by the Allied Democratic Force, a rebel group allied with the Islamic State group, and a coalition of ethnic militias have also hindered the response.<\/p>\n

The illness also has been reported in the Congolese provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, south of Ituri, where the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group controls many key cities, including Goma and Bukavu. The rebels have reported two cases.<\/p>\n

Uganda and Rwanda have closed their borders, while the Trump administration last week banned entry of non-U.S. passport holders who had recently visited Congo, Uganda or South Sudan.<\/p>\n

Tedros on Friday called border closures and travel bans \u201cnot effective at all\u201d in preventing the spread of the outbreak<\/p>\n

\u201cClosing borders, as some countries have done, only discourages transparency. The Democratic Republic of Congo is reporting the situation openly and transparently,” he said, urging countries to reconsider these measures.<\/p>\n

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