Health officials with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) report 72 new confirmed Ebola cases and 44 additional confirmed deaths, bringing the total cases and deaths through August 3 to 3,874 cases and 1,751 deaths for a 45.1% case fatality rate.
The epidemic remains confined to 51 out of 140 health zones across five provinces: Ituri (28/36), North Kivu (12/34), Haut-Uélé (5/13), Tshopo (5/23) and South Kivu (1/34).
Ituri remains the epicenter, accounting for 87.1% of cumulative cases (n = 3,375) and 81.0% of deaths (n = 1,417), with a case fatality rate of 42.0%.
