7 dead 116 under watch
3 of the dead are nurses
Kinshasa, 20/08 (ACP). - Isiro, chief town of the district of Haut-Uele territory of Dungu and Dakwa locality in the same district, Orientale province, are affected by haemorrhagic fever Ebola, announced the Minister of Public Health, Felix Kabange Numbi, during a press conference he hosted Friday in the conference room of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) to Kinshasa.
Mr. Kabange said that it is a fever for ten days unidentified been recorded in this province, and after monitoring cases in the territory of Dungu and Isiro, eight samples have been made so far . Among the cases collected there Dungu with two (2) cases reported negative 3 cases presented with Isiro and four samples, 2 of which are positive.
This is a woman whose removal took place August 12, 2012 and died August 13, 2012 Ebola Bundibugyo strain and a man, the result of sampling aware of this months is positive strain not known. This man is alive but his wife died. It was the head of nursing. Two nurses also died.
12 cases of haemorrhagic fever Ebola including 7 deaths were previously recorded in this province, namely: 1 case, 1 death with 100% fatality rate and 3 contacts in Dungu, 8 cases including 3 deaths with 37 , 5% fatality rate and 44 contacts in monitoring and observation Isiro and 3 cases with 3 deaths with 100% fatality rate and 32 follow-up contacts in the area of health Viagana. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acpcongo.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D11207%3Aquelques-contrees-de-la-province-orientale-touchees-par-la-fievre-hemorragique-a-virus-debola%26catid%3D41%3Asante%26Itemid%3D62&anno=2
