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Visit of the Minister of Public Health and the WHO Representative in Isiro, home to the outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the Eastern Province (north-eastern DRC)27 Aug 2012World Health OrganizationDownload PDF (220.04 KB)
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The Minister of Health, Dr. Felix Kabange Numbi and the Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the DRC, Dr. Léodégal Bazira arrived Thursday, August 23, 2012 at Isiro for a supervisory visit to the fight against the epidemic of fi Èvre Ebola just be officially declared on August 17. Isiro Chief town of the Haut-Uele District, is located more or less 570 km north-east of Kisangani, capital of Orientale Province. The latest figures available at the date of August 24, 2012 report 17 probable or confi rmed that 10 people died, a fatality rate of 59%. According to the results of laboratory tests performed in those where the infection is confi rmed, this epidemic was triggered by the Ebola Bundibugyo strain."The risk of epidemic spread to other towns and cities are real, and we call for the mobilization of all to break the chain of transmission now," said the Minister of Health, referring the areas of health Dungu, Pawa and Viadana who in turn recorded suspects. "This is why we set up an international committee of scientists and technical coordination that is chaired by Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum virologist Congolese renowned for better management and control of this epidemic quick "added Dr. Kabange Numbi. He praised the "outstanding work and health emergency partners of the DRC such as the World Health, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Center for Disease Control (CDCAtlanta) Fund United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Mission for Stabilization of Congo (MONUSCO). ""We urgently appeal to the international community to assist the DRC authorities afi n stop as soon as possible the spread of this highly contagious disease causing mortality up to 90% of cases," said to its part, the WHO Representative. "It must be quickly put in place interventions to strengthen epidemiological surveillance, support cases and contain the spread of the epidemic through measures of hygiene and sanitation and social mobilization," said the Dr. Bazira.Furthermore Isiro, the epicenter of the current outbreak, the Ministry of Public Health and the WHO Representative visited supervision Viadana Saturday, August 25, 2012, one of the areas where the health warning cases suspects was given to 75 km south-west of Haut-Uele District. They encouraged health professionals and educated people to do more to stem the epidemic and to report any cases with symptoms resembling those of FHVE. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Freliefweb.int%2Fsites%2Freliefweb.int%2Ffiles%2Fresources%2FSituation_Report_82.pdf