{"id":2634,"date":"2026-06-20T18:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2026-06-20T18:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:36:40","slug":"mourners-bury-a-6-month-old-ebola-victim-in-the-congo-outbreaks-third-orphanage-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=2634","title":{"rendered":"Mourners bury a 6-month-old Ebola victim in the Congo outbreak\u2019s third orphanage death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>By Justin Kabumba and Wilson McMakin | Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BUNIA, Congo \u2014 Mourners gathered Friday to bury a 6-month-old girl who died from Ebola earlier this week, the third child to die at an orphanage in eastern Congo as authorities have struggled to contain the latest outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=2632\">How much it will cost to see U.S. at World Cup knockout match in Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carrying a cross, people stood at a distance as the small coffin was lowered into the ground by masked and gloved health workers, and a Catholic priest prayed over her body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a feeling of sadness because we have lost one of our own, a daughter of the church,\u201d said Father Innocent Ndogo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we have always said, the Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ituri, the region at the center of the current outbreak, has reported more than 90% of the cases. The response has been complicated by residents clashing with healthcare professionals over disrupted burials and the response to the outbreak, which has been militarized at times.<\/p>\n<p>The impersonal nature of safe burial practices and the severity of the epidemic were evident on Friday as only healthcare workers in protective gear were allowed to handle the coffin and the burial.<\/p>\n<p>Bundibugyo, the type of Ebola in this outbreak, has no approved treatment or vaccine, and even some health workers have said they don\u2019t have the masks, gloves and other gear to protect themselves.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During a visit to Bunia on Friday, Congolese Health Minister Roger Kamba said that there were now 933 confirmed cases and 245 deaths from the current outbreak. Kamba also stated that all health centers will be free in Ituri and that healthcare workers bonuses will be doubled.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=2630\">Club owner keeps historic LGBTQ space alive in Contra Costa County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are 35,000 suspected potential contacts, Africa\u2019s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rapid spread of the current outbreak, it is still not nearly as deadly as a 2014 outbreak of Ebola that killed more than 11,000.<\/p>\n<p>With no approved vaccines or treatments, the Bundibugyo strain was not tested for in the early days. This lack of testing is one of the reasons the outbreak has spread to such an extent. The more common Zaire virus, for which there is a vaccine, was responsible for most of Congo\u2019s past 16 outbreaks of the disease.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alex Lock, a communications officer at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, asked people to resist feeling indifferent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was a baby. She had her whole life ahead of her. Unfortunately, she was taken by the disease, a disease that, as you know, is transmitted from one person to another,\u201d Lock said.<\/p>\n<p>Although the outbreak is concentrated in Ituri, cases have also been recorded in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces and have spread across the border to Uganda, where 19 confirmed cases have been reported and two people have died.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=2628\">Without the injured Christian Pulisic, US beats Australia 2-0 to advance to World Cup knockout round<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>McMakin reported from Dakar, Senegal.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mourners gathered Friday to bury a 6-month-old girl who died from Ebola earlier this week, the third child to die at an orphanage in eastern Congo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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