The Ebola outbreak raging in the Eastern Province of the DRC have killed 31 people, according to an update of the Congolese government. The WTO deplores a situation "out of control".
According to the latest report, published on 13 September by the Congolese Minister of Health, Dr. Felix Kabange Numbi, the Ebola epidemic raging in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , could have caused the death of 31 people since May.
On August 17, the state was declared officially epidemic in the Eastern Province (northeast). Since that date, 11 cases have been identified, including 9 deaths were reported.
However, Dr. Kabange Numbi announced that retrospective research aimed at identifying the former case was conducted by the International Committee of technical and scientific coordination, which is responsible for the fight against Ebola in the affected area.
Since May 2012
The committee felt that the hemorrhagic fever began to rage in the month of May 2012, which significantly increases the death toll which it is responsible: 69 cases have indeed been identified. The Minister added that more than half of identified cases arose before the official declaration of the epidemic in mid-August.
In total, 31 deaths were recorded. The laboratory analyzes have been certified with Ebola is responsible for at least nine of them. The minister said that 159 people, may have been in contact with patients are monitored.
The World Health Organization (WHO), it also revised upward the number of infected people and evokes 41 confirmed cases, 28 suspected and 18 deaths in the Haut Uele district of Orientale Province. In total, the institution recognizes 69 confirmed, probable or suspected this district, which is the most affected, but not alone: retrospective surveys revealed 27 cases in the areas of Isiro Viadana and other cities of the Province, WHO announced.
"Serious situation"
The institution indicated by the voice of his spokesman Fadela Chaib that "the situation is serious," adding that "the epidemic continues and we expect to discover new cases." In comments reported by Reuters, Eugene Kabambi, spokesman for the WHO in Kinshasa, painted a more black and stressed that "the epidemic is not under control. On the contrary, the situation is very, very serious. " If nothing is done now, the disease will win other areas and even cities will be threatened, "he said.
WHO, UNICEF, the International Federation of the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta have sent all of the doctors there to try an obstacle to the epidemic.
Ebola is highly contagious nature. Moreover, 18 cases identified affecting health workers. Because of this high risk of infection, suspected cases should be placed in isolation, and the people they attended must be identified in order to prevent the epidemic from spreading beyond the area already affected. In this context, five people were segregated http://www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAWEB20120914193444/sante-omc-rdc-virusrdc-le-virus-ebola-serait-a-l-origine-de-31-deces-depuis-mai-dans-le-nord-est.html
