Via Noticias SIN, an EFE report: Ebola cases in DR Congo rise to 5. I haven't been able to find the story in any of the Congolese media that usually cover Ebola. Excerpt from the Google translation:
With the confirmation today of three new cases of Ebola, there are already five detected in the new outbreak that emerged in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), three of people who have died, confirmed today to Efe the national coordinator of the response to the epidemic, Steve Ahuka.
"We confirmed the existence of these three cases in the health area of the Beni (territory), which brings the number of registered cases to a total of five," Ahuka revealed this Sunday in a telephone conversation.
Among the three new cases detected are a 32-year-old woman - who began to have symptoms on October 15 - and a 41-year-old man, who was a contact for the third case confirmed today, a three-year-old girl who began to experience fever. last October 12 and passed away at dawn this Saturday.
The man and the woman remain admitted to the Ebola treatment center in the Butsili area, in Beni, in the northeastern province of North Kivu, where a new case was confirmed on October 8 that marked the outbreak of this disease. in the country, after the end of the last epidemic was declared last May.
According to the Congolese Minister of Health, Jean-Jacques Mbungani, that first case involved "a three-year-old male hospitalized and died on October 6."
Likewise, according to the WHO, at least three relatives of the minor who also resided in Butsili, died during the month of September with symptoms typical of Ebola.
On October 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed a second case, also from a deceased patient, without offering further details.
The DRC launched the immunization campaign last Wednesday and 14 people were vaccinated during the first day, while, until that date, at least 220 contacts whose health status is being monitored had already been identified, according to the WHO reported last Thursday.
"The initial genomic sequencing indicates that the new cases probably represent a new outbreak of the Ebola epidemic of 2018-2020, most likely transmitted by a persistently infected survivor or by a survivor who experienced a relapse," he underlined in a conference. virtual press the regional director for Africa of the organization, Matshidiso Moeti.
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