A senior World Health Organization official said on Friday that 75 medics in the Democratic ​Republic of Congo had been infected with Ebola and 17 ​of them had died since the current outbreak started ⁠there. Ebola was thought to be circulating months before the outbreak was ​first declared by Congolese officials on May 15, meaning many ​medics were exposed to the disease before they even knew it was present. Even now, health officials say supplies of the basic gear to protect themselves ​like gloves and masks are running short. “It is a really ​high price that the system, the healthcare system, is paying, because we don’t ‌have ⁠enough of healthcare workers in DRC,” a WHO emergency director, Marie Roseline Belizaire, told a press conference by video link from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Full report : More than 70 Congo medics infected with Ebola since outbreak started, WHO says.