Ebola: 10 African countries at risk of being hit by the epidemic

 The African Union Health Agency (Africa CDC) is sounding the alarm about the Ebola virus. "Ten countries at risk."

Ten African countries are at risk of being affected by the Ebola virus, in addition to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of the epidemic, and Uganda, the African Union Health Agency (Africa CDC) warned today.

"We have ten countries at risk" of being affected, Africa CDC president Jean Casey said during a press conference.

These countries are:

South Sudan,

Rwanda,

Kenya,

Tanzania,

Ethiopia,

the Congo,

Burundi,

Angola,

the Central African Republic and

Zambia.

Nearly 750 suspected Ebola cases and 177 suspected deaths have been counted in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country with a population of about 100 million people, where the epidemic is "spreading rapidly," the World Health Organization warned yesterday.

This epidemic, the 17th to hit the Democratic Republic of Congo , "is the second most important we know of in the world ," Kaseya stressed.