Ebola: 11 probable or confirmed cases with 9 deaths in DRC

 Eleven probable or confirmed cases of viral haemorrhagic fever Ebola, with 9 deaths have been reported in the city of Isiro, in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said Saturday the Minister of Health of this country, Dr. Felix Kabange Numbi.
The minister said in a statement quoted the World Health Organization (WHO), laboratory tests, conducted by the Institute of Uganda Virus Research Entebbe (UVRI), confirmed the presence of strain Bundibugyo of this disease in this city of 200,000 inhabitants.

Isiro, capital of Upper Uele in Orientale Province, is located a few hundred kilometers from the Ugandan region affected by this disease in recent weeks.

Sixteen people died in Uganda since the beginning of the last outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in early July in western countries. The home was located in western Uganda, some 200 kilometers from Kampala and about 50 kilometers from the border with DRC.

A Ugandan official had said earlier this week told AFP that the outbreak was under control.

In the DRC, emergency crews mixed the Ministry of Public Health, WHO, the Center for Disease Control (CDC-Atlanta) and Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) are working closely together on site, said the WHO.

According to the WHO press release, the Minister asked the entire population of the DRC to take action to address this epidemic, observing strict measures of collective and individual hygiene, and avoiding eating meat from fallen in the forest, or to touch the corpse of a dead person of viral haemorrhagic fever.
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