Congolese risk group vaccinated against Ebola

geneva - Almost all residents of the Congolese city of Mbandaka who are most at risk of becoming infected with the Ebola virus have been vaccinated against the dreaded disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this on Tuesday. In total, more than 400 people who have had contact with Ebola patients have been vaccinated.

According to the responsible WHO official Peter Salama, 90 percent of the risk group is helped. 'We can not conclude that we have now protected Mbandaka, but we can say that so far there has been no explosive increase in contamination cases. So that's a positive signal and a positive development ', says Salama. 'We have reason to be cautiously optimistic. '

Since the outbreak of ebola in the Congo, 25 people have died from it. A total of 54 cases of contamination were confirmed, of which 47 in the rural municipalities of Bikoro and Iboko. The disease was first diagnosed there. Those places will receive priority from the WHO in the coming weeks, said Salama's colleague Michael Ryan. 'In the countryside, the risk of a rapid spread of the disease is not that great, but finding infected people and their contacts is a hell of a job. '

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