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Re: DRC-an unknown disease kills 65 people in 4 weeks Djera, Equateur Province - not Ebola
Looks like there are multiple outbreaks here, hence the confusion. There is still the possibility that one of them is indeed VHF.
DRC: Eleven patients with fever in solitary confinement
Democratic Republic of Congo, dozens of deaths in the Equateur province have attracted the attention of health authorities. For the Minister of Health, who visited the site, thirteen cases of these deaths could be cases of hemorrhagic fever. In this area, the territory of Boende other epidemics raged like malaria and febrile gastroenteritis. Eleven patients were placed in isolation as a precaution.
If the Minister of Health speaks of hemorrhagic fever, it is because of these three patients, the majority showed signs of internal bleeding due to vomiting or diarrhea, just before their death. But to confirm, you have to wait a few days. Hence the caution of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who refuse currently talking hemorrhagic fever.
Especially as there are other epidemics in this Boende territory in Ecuador, such as malaria and febrile of gastroenterological whose symptoms can be similar. The first samples taken there for ten days and analyzed in Kinshasa, there is also evidence of shigellosis, as the Health Minister himself, which again has very similar symptoms sometimes with hemorrhagic stools.
The government is "as if"
The analyzes of eight samples taken in recent days on patients will be in Kinshasa, but also in Franceville, Gabon has a laboratory capable of determining whether or not a hemorrhagic fever and what kind.
By then, the Congolese government says do "as if" as a precaution. He distributed materials caregivers to avoid contamination. "We think we need more fish by excesses default, says Minister Felix Kagange Numbi. Health's why we think this is a suspected hemorrhagic fever, but of unknown origin and therefore different measures were taken. Everything is done to contain precisely the situation in the territory of Boende. "
Among caregivers, five people have died. Other victims, they manipulated the bodies of some of the victims of this mysterious disease. Hence isolation precautions for all patients with suspected symptoms. "The government will provide medication four health areas concerned to ensure free health care and to bring as much as possible all suspected cases to the health center," said the minister.
Looks like there are multiple outbreaks here, hence the confusion. There is still the possibility that one of them is indeed VHF.
DRC: Eleven patients with fever in solitary confinement
Democratic Republic of Congo, dozens of deaths in the Equateur province have attracted the attention of health authorities. For the Minister of Health, who visited the site, thirteen cases of these deaths could be cases of hemorrhagic fever. In this area, the territory of Boende other epidemics raged like malaria and febrile gastroenteritis. Eleven patients were placed in isolation as a precaution.
If the Minister of Health speaks of hemorrhagic fever, it is because of these three patients, the majority showed signs of internal bleeding due to vomiting or diarrhea, just before their death. But to confirm, you have to wait a few days. Hence the caution of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who refuse currently talking hemorrhagic fever.
Especially as there are other epidemics in this Boende territory in Ecuador, such as malaria and febrile of gastroenterological whose symptoms can be similar. The first samples taken there for ten days and analyzed in Kinshasa, there is also evidence of shigellosis, as the Health Minister himself, which again has very similar symptoms sometimes with hemorrhagic stools.
The government is "as if"
The analyzes of eight samples taken in recent days on patients will be in Kinshasa, but also in Franceville, Gabon has a laboratory capable of determining whether or not a hemorrhagic fever and what kind.
By then, the Congolese government says do "as if" as a precaution. He distributed materials caregivers to avoid contamination. "We think we need more fish by excesses default, says Minister Felix Kagange Numbi. Health's why we think this is a suspected hemorrhagic fever, but of unknown origin and therefore different measures were taken. Everything is done to contain precisely the situation in the territory of Boende. "
Among caregivers, five people have died. Other victims, they manipulated the bodies of some of the victims of this mysterious disease. Hence isolation precautions for all patients with suspected symptoms. "The government will provide medication four health areas concerned to ensure free health care and to bring as much as possible all suspected cases to the health center," said the minister.
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