Via 7sur7.cd: Beni: Launch of vaccination to counter the new Ebola epidemic. The Google translation:
The health authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and their partners in UN agencies, launched the vaccination campaign against the new Ebola epidemic on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 in Beni, North Kivu.
The information was delivered to the press by the chief medical officer of the Beni health zone, Doctor Michel Tosalisana, who informs that this vaccination primarily concerns people who were in contact with the first two cases detected since the resurgence of disease.
Response teams are also already at work and humanitarian partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are deploying to cut the chain of the disease.
About a thousand doses of vaccine have been deployed in North Kivu province along with other pharmaceuticals to support the response.
To date, more than 170 contact cases have been identified since the reappearance of the disease on October 8.
Two cases have already been confirmed, including a second recorded last Wednesday. The two victims are all already deceased and health authorities say surveillance is stepping up to prevent another disaster, such as the one experienced between 2018 and 2019.
