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Five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus, the head of the World Health Organization said Sunday during a visit to Bunia in eastern Congo, a city at the heart of an outbreak.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFour people will be discharged today and there was one that was discharged the day before yesterday,\u201d WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during the opening of a new Ebola treatment center in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, we\u2019re still working on vaccines and treatments but that doesn\u2019t mean that people cannot recover from Ebola,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The WHO said Friday a patient had recovered from the Bundibugyo virus, the current species of Ebola, which has no approved treatment or vaccine. It was the first documented recovery of a confirmed Bundibugyo patient during the current outbreak.<\/p>\n

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The health organization said authorities have reported 134 confirmed cases in Congo and neighboring Uganda, including 18 confirmed deaths as of May 29.<\/p>\n

Recovered patients describe their experience<\/b><\/p>\n

Baraka Bulambulu, one of those who recovered, told The Associated Press on Sunday that community members feared contracting an unknown illness from them, keeping their distance while delivering food and medicine.<\/p>\n

He said the uncertainty was overwhelming, as he and other patients believed they might die without knowing what disease they had, though testing eventually confirmed Ebola.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to come out of this alive is an immense source of happiness,\u201d Bulambulu said. \u201dMany people who were in the same situation died.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ezo \u00c9tienne, a nurse, said his symptoms began during ward rounds when he suddenly felt dizzy, then rapidly deteriorated into vomiting, intense itching, severe diarrhea and extreme weakness. He was tested seven times before Ebola was confirmed.<\/p>\n

His treatment remained purely to treat the symptoms: medications to control vomiting, fluids to prevent dehydration and pain relievers. \u201cThat was all they could provide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He urged the public and healthcare workers not to dismiss early symptoms such as vomiting and headaches, warning that misinformation leads many people to believe they have been poisoned rather than seeking hospital care.<\/p>\n

Lack of supplies, distrust and insecurity complicate response<\/b><\/p>\n

Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, said Saturday the virus continues to spread faster than the response despite better-organized health facilities and new aid arrivals. It called for the immediate expansion of testing, faster deployment of aid workers and sustained access for medical supplies.<\/p>\n

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The 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

Tedros stressed the importance of involving the community in the outbreak response during the opening of the new treatment center on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you come to health facilities when you have symptoms, you can get the support and recover, so the key is to come forward as early as possible and to get the necessary support,” the WHO chief said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can stop this Ebola and anyone who has it can also recover. But the rule … is this thing is everybody\u2019s business and every citizen should be involved,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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

ADF fighters killed seven people Saturday in Beni, North Kivu province, an area also affected by the outbreak, the Congolese army and civil society groups said.<\/p>\n

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

\u201cThe final message we would like to share with the Ituri community is that there is hope,\u201d Pierre Akilimali, incident manager at Congo’s National Institute of Public Health, said during the inauguration on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the symptomatic treatment that we are currently providing, we are seeing patients recover,\u201d Akilimali added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe truly have hope. The virus here is not as complicated as those we have dealt with in the past, and with the support of all our partners, we believe we will be able to bring this outbreak under control as quickly as possible,\u201d said Davin Ambitapio, another doctor at the treatment center.<\/p>\n

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