As more patients recover from the world’s largest recorded Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, doctors are beginning to piece together how the rare virus behaves — offering the clearest picture yet of one of the disease’s least-studied strains.
The number of recoveries reported by Congolese health authorities almost doubled in a week, rising to 148 on Thursday from 80 on June 18, even as treatment centers admit dozens of patients daily.
Previous Bundibugyo outbreaks had lower reported fatality rates than epidemics caused by the more common Zaire and Sudan species, but doctors say it’s too early to know whether the current epidemic will follow the same pattern because hundreds of patients remain hospitalized.
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