{"id":2460,"date":"2019-01-25T13:06:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2019-01-25T13:06:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:06:40","slug":"ebola-survivors-fight-disease-as-dr-congo-outbreak-rages-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/ebola-survivors-fight-disease-as-dr-congo-outbreak-rages-on","title":{"rendered":"Ebola survivors fight disease as DR Congo outbreak rages on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DR Congo confirmed a record number of Ebola cases in one day on Wednesday, as stigma continues to surround survivors.<span id=\"more-3096224744011936\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Congolese Ebola survivors are dispelling rumours and caring for patients and lone children in the world\u2019s second-deadliest outbreak, health workers said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The virus is spreading fast in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with 713 confirmed and probable cases and 439 deaths.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsd-6510047\" class=\"newsd-2nd-advert-incontent\">\n<p>It is surpassed only by the 2014-2016 outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, in which more than 11,000 people died.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 250 patients in the DRC have recovered since the outbreak began in July.<\/p>\n<p>Research has shown that the disease gives survivors immunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like this work very much,\u201d said Lydie Besolo, an 18-year-old in the town of Beni who survived Ebola and now spends her afternoons after school working as a nurse in a health centre run by medical charity Doctors Without Borders (known by their French acronym, MSF).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tell (the patients) my story. 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