Nearly 100 Children Dead As World’s 2nd-Largest Ebola Outbreak Surpasses 800 Cases

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The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has claimed the lives of nearly 100 children.

At least 97 children, 65 of whom were younger than 5 years old, have died from Ebola virus disease in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo since the outbreak was declared.

“We are at a crossroads,” Heather Kerr, Save the Children’s country director in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, said in a statement.

A total of 811 people have reported symptoms of hemorrhagic fever in the country’s northeastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri. Among those cases, 750 have tested positive for Ebola, which causes an often-fatal type of hemorrhagic fever.

The growing outbreak has a case fatality rate of nearly 63 percent. There have been 510 deaths thus far, including 449 people who died from confirmed cases of Ebola. The other deaths are probable cases.

Global health organizations have raised alarm over the high number of children infected in the ongoing outbreak.

This is the 10th outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the most severe that the Central African nation has seen since 1976, when scientists first identified the virus near the eponymous Ebola River.

It’s the first Ebola outbreak in history to occur in an active war zone.

The prophecies of Jesus Christ in Matthew chapter 24 and Revelation chapter 6 foretell that pestilences bringing death would be a sign of the Last Days at the end of this age.

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