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Thursday, August 23, 2012

DRC: lifestyles of rural facilitate the spread of Ebola outbreak



 The doctor in charge of controlling communicable disease prevention at WHO, Dr. Vital Mondonge, stated Wednesday, August 22 during the weekly conference of the United Nations, that the fight against the spread of the Ebola epidemic will be played on prevention. . According to him, the lifestyles of rural Congolese facilitate contamination.
 "These are the usual work [rural] as hunting exposing them to the disease. . The infected person in the forest will transmit the disease to other villagers, "said Dr. Vital Mondonge. Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease of animal origin.. The first patient, identified in 1976 were contaminated by hunting apes and bats of the rainforest.
 . In addition, the doctor asked the Congolese people to respect the measures taken by the health authorities...   http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fr&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://radiookapi.net/actualite/2012/08/22/rdc-les-modes-de-vie-des-populations-rurales-faciliteraient-la-propagation-de-lepidemie-debola/&usg=ALkJrhhBikOreLvvnOy7odV0B8M-QYWSuw