Via Bunia Actualité: Bunia: No confirmed Ebola case after tests. The Google translation:
Speculation about the presence of Ebola virus has invaded the city of Bunia, capital of the province of Ituri, last weekend. This after the death of a man who had symptoms similar to those of the ebola epidemic.
To stop this rumor, a sample was taken and sent to the laboratory of the mobile center for treating this disease in Beni in neighboring North Kivu.
After analyzing these data, the result revealed the presence of another disease. A situation that prompted the provincial authority to call the press for an update.
"The result has just come out, it is a negative result, there is no Ebola in the city of Bunia. According to the doctors the patient suffered from acute gastritis, it is up to them to give you more details. But that can not force us to give up, we must double our vigilance so that soon if there are such cases, that people do not get bogged down," said Abdallah Pene Mbaka, governor of the province of Ituri. He has invited its population to continue to observe hygiene measures.
Before his death, the patient who is a leader of an avenue in the Ndibakodu district of Bunia town was vomiting blood from Lopa, a village 30 km north of Bunia in Djugu territory, according to Faustin Agenong'a, mayor of the municipality of Shari.
Police used tear gas on Saturday to disperse the family members of the victim who wanted to forcefully retrieve the mortal remains from the morgue of the general reference hospital in Bunia pending the laboratory's outcome.
The same scenario was also observed on Sunday when a group of young people forced the door of the morgue, broke the coffin provided for the burial of the victim, which led the authorities to release his body for burial, said the Colonel Prosper Zombo, Commander Police Town, joined by buniaactualite.com
