Kinshasa, 14/09/2012 / Health
The epidemic had started in May 2012 and 69 cases were recorded including health personnel.After retrospective research to identify the former case and a prospective documentation to detect new cases and follow-up contacts, the International Coordinating Committee in charge of scientific and technical organization of the fight against the epidemic fever Ebola hemorrhagic in Haut Uele district have started in May 2012 and 69 cases were recorded including health personnel. The updated data on the epidemic was announced by the Minister of Health, Dr Felix Kabange, during a press conference Thursday at the headquarters of the Expanded Programme on Immunization. "epidemic had begun in May 2012 and 69 cases were recorded including health personnel. More than half of these cases occurred before the official declaration of the epidemic which took place on August 17. The other cases are detected prospectively thereafter. The number of dead is 31 confirmed cases of the laboratory 9. Patients are isolated cases with confirmed Ebola. Of 508 contacts in monitoring, 349 were removed and 1 59 are stayed." It is this way that presents the current status of the epidemic of Ebola haemorrhagic fever raging in the district of Haut-Uele with West as the main focus area of health and Isiro as secondary focus area health Viadana. These results stem from a compilation and analysis of prospective and retrospective data after a seek conducted by the International Coordinating Committee of Scientific and Technical one against the epidemic is updating data on the epidemic.
"Thus, the data presented from this day will now report this" update, "said the Minister of Public Health. Dr. Felix Kabange Numbi during the press briefing Thursday, September 13, 2012. Whilst presenting the situation, he revealed a first experiment attempted situation in the DRC Ebola outbreak. Thus, he said that among the 5 patients in isolation, one case has been confirmed.
This is a woman seven months pregnant and a half whose pregnancy has been preserved and delivered 48 hours after the onset of labor. The Minister said that the woman gave birth to a boy this Thursday, September 13 morning. The mother and the child born prematurely are alive. According to the Minister, a team of subject matter experts has been mobilized and in conference with the doctors who were there, they could lead this birth. Dr. Felix Kabange recalled that the epidemic is caused by the Ebola Bundibugyo subtype that is different from the usual Ebola-Zaire strain that struck the DRC at the Equator (1976), Bandundu (1995) and Kasai Occidental (2007-2008-2009). http://www.digitalcongo.net/article/86606
