DRC: 31 dead, new assessment of the Ebola outbreak
published there 9:00, 14 minutes | Last Update September 2, 2014 at 7:54
The
new statistics of the epidemic of Ebola plaguing the health area Djera
in Equateur province virus, report 31 deaths out of 53 cases recorded,
reported Monday, September 1 at the Mbandaka Minister of Public Health, Felix Kabange Numbi.
Only the health area Djera still affected and the situation is under
control with contingency measures put in place by the Congolese
government, he said. "We are 51 cases, 13 laboratory-confirmed cases, 19 probable cases and 21 suspected cases. To date, we have 31 deaths. We have 15 samples, including 13 positive for Ebola and we are monitoring 185 cases of contact ", detailed the Minister Kabange Numbi. He said the case contacts are people who have had contact with sick Ebola.
"We must follow every day for 21 days, because -when you are in contact with someone with Ebola - you can make the disease within two to twenty-one days," said the same source.
See also: Felix Kabange: "The secret of Ebola management is to break the chain of contact"The Minister of Health reiterated that the outbreak was confined to Djera.
"The Government of the Republic and the provincial government are set to protect Mbandaka Ebola," Has he said after his meeting with the acting governor of Ecuador, Sébastien Impeto.
Moreover, the Minister of Public Health also urged people in Mbandaka and the entire province to observe the preventive measures against the epidemic. These include the quarantine of Djera, prohibition of contact with patients and their liquid, hand washing and denunciation of all visitors who come from the infected area.
The report published last Thursday, August 28 by Felix Kabange reported seven new cases of Ebola confirmed by laboratory tests. Bringing to thirteen the number of people affected by the virus in the area Djera where the epidemic was officially declared four days before people. https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=2&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://radiookapi.net/actualite/2014/08/21/equateur-mal-inconnu-fait-65-morts-en-4-semaines-djera/
