After resolving some technical problems with my blog display, I'm back in business. And just for a change, a non-Ebola story from Actualite.cd: DRC - Cholera: 23,166 suspected cases including 798 deaths since January (UN). Excerpt from the Google translation:
Some 798 people have died of cholera since January in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) among 23,166 suspected cases, said Wednesday the UN mission for stabilization in the DRC (MONUSCO), linking this outbreak to the achievement of the Kasai region in October 2017 by the Cholera.
"The situation of the cholera epidemic in the DRC remains very worrying From January to mid-October 2018, 23,166 suspected cases including 798 deaths have been reported", wrote the mission in an account which ACTUALITE.CD has a copy.
Unlike previous situations where the majority of cases were reported in endemic areas in the east of the country, "it is almost all of the DRC, with 24 of the 26 provinces, which was affected this year" with reaching the provinces of the Kasai region "while the general trend was already trending downwards", explains the mission.
This deadly outbreak can be explained by the late response to an outbreak of cases or the low quality of care for lack of resources, including trained providers, said the UN agencies.
The trend has been "downward" in the Kasai region for a few weeks, while there is an increasing trend in the endemic areas of Tanganyika, South Kivu, Lomami and Kongo Central.
"The current situation shows that the 2017 cholera epidemic has never subsided," concludes the UN.
