3 Ebola Patients Escape Quarantine In DRC, Two Later Die
According to the head of medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) mission in the city, two out of three Ebola patients who escaped quarantine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Mbandaka have died.
The third patient was found alive and is currently under observation by MSF and the World Health Organization (WHO), the MSF's Henri Gray said on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the WHO said on Wednesday it was speeding up efforts with nine countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) to attempt to prevent the spread of the current Ebola outbreak beyond its borders. The UN agency said teams are being deployed to assess how prepared the countries are.