Ebola Patient Dies Vomiting Blood Onto People At Beni Hospital

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a resurgence of Ebola late last night, following confirmation of one case in the country’s eastern province of North Kivu.

A 46-year-old woman died of Ebola on 15 August 2022 in Beni, a town located in North Kivu.


She received care at the Beni Referral Hospital, initially for other ailments, but subsequently exhibited symptoms explosive vomiting blood and explosive diarrhea .


The government, with the support of the World Health Organisation, has launched an Ebola vaccination campaign exercise for soldiers fighting in the army in the Allied Democratic Forces in eastern DRC.

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Mass vaccination against Ebola will be rolled out as more vaccines arrive, health officials said.

Uganda’s health authorities on Tuesday started vaccinating frontline soldiers of the nation’s army fighting against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in conflict-torn DR Congo.


“The World Health Organization (WHO) provided us with 12,000 doses of Mark Vaccine which protects against Ebola Zaire. We started with soldiers because there is an Ebola outbreak in Beni, DR Congo,” Uganda’s Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng said at the launch of the exercise on Tuesday.