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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Ebola: 14 deaths in Eastern Province since the declaration of the epidemic


September 3, 2012 at 11:54
The Scientific and Technical Committee of the fight against Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Isiro (Province Orientale) published Saturday 1 thSeptember, its first evaluation report since the declaration of the epidemic in the DRC on 17 August. He identified twenty-nine cases including fourteen deaths. The district medical officer of health Isiro, Dr. Jacques Bumbaluka says other suspects are being analyzed in the laboratory.
The doctor says that patients are located in two neighboring areas of health: Isiro (18 cases including 11 deaths) and Viadana (11 cases including 3 deaths).
"The case recorded Faradje ultimately proved negative laboratory. Poko alerts and Abba are being analyzed " , he adds.
In addition, Dr. Jacques Bumbaluka believes that the epidemic could be controlled in the coming days, to say the reasons for his certainty.
The Ebola epidemic broke out in the DRC at the beginning of August in the Eastern Province. According to WHO, the lifestyles of rural Congolese facilitate the spread of the disease.
"These are the usual work [rural] as hunting that expose them to the disease. The infected person in the forest will transmit the disease to others in the village " , said Dr. Vital Mondonge recently, physician in charge of controlling communicable disease prevention at WHO.
Absence of a cure, the Minister of Health has asked the public to respect hygiene measures individually and collectively.
The crisis committee epidemics Isiro District in Eastern Province arrested several measures at the community to stop contamination . It is specifically asked people to:


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