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DRC: the only confirmed case of monkey pox in Kwango has died
Tuesday August 9, 2022 - 12:04
NEWS.CD
The province of Kwango has recorded since almost two weeks its first case of Monkeypox (monkey pox) confirmed by the INRB in the territory of Feshi, village of Kolokoso.
The approximately 24-year-old patient presented with fever, rash and muscle aches. The epidemiologist doctor of the Kwango provincial health division, Dr François Mwakisenda, specifies that this case has died since July 18 and all the contact cases have not yet shown signs of the disease.
"There was one case confirmed by the INRB. This is a patient of about 24 years old who was consulted for fever, rash and then for muscle pain...There is had a joint DPS and INRB team, who went to investigate to collect the samples and the case was confirmed three days later. We made the list of all the contacts; fortunately for us, no contact developed the signs So far we have only had this one case, which died on the night of July 18,” François Mwakisenda told ACTUALITE.CD.
This patient had confirmed, before his death, that he had eaten the meat of the game he had captured while working in the fields, and which showed skin rashes.
In addition to the province of Kwango, Monkeypox is also notified in the provinces of Maniema, Kwilu, Sankuru, Mai-Ndombe, Mongala, Tshuapa, Bas-Uélé and Equateur.
On July 23, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, classified monkeypox as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (USPPI).
Jonathan MESA, in Bandundu
https://actualite.cd/index.php/2022/...ngo-est-decede
DRC: the only confirmed case of monkey pox in Kwango has died
Tuesday August 9, 2022 - 12:04
NEWS.CD
The province of Kwango has recorded since almost two weeks its first case of Monkeypox (monkey pox) confirmed by the INRB in the territory of Feshi, village of Kolokoso.
The approximately 24-year-old patient presented with fever, rash and muscle aches. The epidemiologist doctor of the Kwango provincial health division, Dr François Mwakisenda, specifies that this case has died since July 18 and all the contact cases have not yet shown signs of the disease.
"There was one case confirmed by the INRB. This is a patient of about 24 years old who was consulted for fever, rash and then for muscle pain...There is had a joint DPS and INRB team, who went to investigate to collect the samples and the case was confirmed three days later. We made the list of all the contacts; fortunately for us, no contact developed the signs So far we have only had this one case, which died on the night of July 18,” François Mwakisenda told ACTUALITE.CD.
This patient had confirmed, before his death, that he had eaten the meat of the game he had captured while working in the fields, and which showed skin rashes.
In addition to the province of Kwango, Monkeypox is also notified in the provinces of Maniema, Kwilu, Sankuru, Mai-Ndombe, Mongala, Tshuapa, Bas-Uélé and Equateur.
On July 23, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, classified monkeypox as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (USPPI).
Jonathan MESA, in Bandundu
https://actualite.cd/index.php/2022/...ngo-est-decede
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