The grim milestone comes a month after the World Health Organization declared an international emergency in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has exceeded 3,000 cases, as the yearlong epidemic continues to grow despite access to an experimental vaccine and developmental treatments.
The ongoing outbreak is now spread across three eastern Congolese provinces that share international borders with South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Bob Kitchen, vice president for emergencies at the International Rescue Committee -- one of the aid groups on the ground assisting Congolese health officials -- said in a statement that many people in the affected areas are"afraid to seek treatment for illnesses, worried they will be sent to an Ebola treatment center where they fear they could contract the disease."
Although the average number of new cases reported per week has dipped slightly during the last few weeks, the number of affected areas has increased. An experimental Ebola vaccine developed by American pharmaceutical company Merck that was tested in the West Africa epidemic was approved for use in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a week after the outbreak was declared last year. More than 206,000 people in the current outbreak zone have received the experimental vaccine since Aug. 8, 2018.
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