Tun daga shekarar 1976, an sami bullar cutar Ebola sau 14 a Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Kongo. The na baya-bayan nan shine 2021, sai kuma shekarar 2020 lokacin da aka samu bullar cutar da aka samu mutane 140 da suka kamu da cutar, kuma a shekarar 2018, an samu bullar cutar guda 54 a lokacin barkewar cutar.
Ya zuwa yanzu dai cutar ta kama mutum daya (31) wanda ya fara nuna alamun cutar Ebola a ranar 5 ga Afrilu. Ya yi yunkurin kula da lafiyarsa a gida kafin ya je wurin kiwon lafiya a ranar 21 ga Afrilu.
Ma'aikatan kiwon lafiya sun gane alamun kuma sun gwada su nan da nan don tabbatar da cewa cutar ta Ebola ce. An kwantar da mutumin a cibiyar kula da masu fama da cutar Ebola a cikin kulawa mai zurfi amma ya mutu a ranar. Cutar tana aiki cikin sauri kuma galibi tana haifar da mace-mace tare da adadin daga 25% zuwa 90% wanda ke haifar da mutuwa a barkewar annobar da ta gabata.
Jami’ai na kokarin tantance tushen barkewar cutar tare da zakulo wadanda za su iya kula da lafiyarsu a daidai lokacin da wurin da aka yi wa majinyacin magani ya lalace. Yace Hukumar Lafiya ta Duniya (WHO) Daraktan shiyya na Afirka, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti:
"Lokaci baya kanmu."
“Cutar ta fara makonni biyu a kai kuma yanzu muna wasa da mu. Labari mai dadi shi ne hukumomin kiwon lafiya a Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Kongo sun fi kowa kwarewa a duniya wajen shawo kan barkewar cutar Ebola cikin sauri."
Ana shirin fara allurar rigakafin cutar Ebola da aka riga aka samu a Goma da Kinshasa.
A cikin sanarwar da WHO ta fitar, an fayyace cewa "za a aika da alluran rigakafin zuwa Mbandaka kuma za a gudanar da su ta hanyar 'dabarun rigakafin zobe,' inda ake yi wa abokan hulda da abokan huldar allurar rigakafin cutar da kuma kare rayuka."
Dokta Moeti ya bayyana cewa: “An riga an yi wa mutane da yawa a Mbandaka allurar rigakafin cutar Ebola, wanda ya kamata ya taimaka wajen rage tasirin cutar. Duk wadanda aka yi wa allurar rigakafin cutar a shekarar 2020 za a sake yi musu allurar.”
WHO ta ce an yi wa majinyacin jana'iza lafiya da daraja.