DR Congo: 2011-2012 Cholera outbreaks, 1,096 fatalities

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A cholera epidemic that killed 301 in the Democratic Republic of Congo


Friday, August 19, 2011 modified Friday, August 19, 2011 - 09:59




A cholera epidemic has killed 301 out of a total of 5171 people living in four provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), announced Thursday the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

These deaths were recorded in Bandundu (West) with 101 people killed, Eqauteur (northwest) with 90 people and the Orientale (Northeast) with 82 deaths, while 25 people were killed in the capital Kinshasa because of the disease.

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DRC: Cholera deaths and cases soar


KINSHASA, 7 October 2011 (IRIN) - There has been an increase in the number of cholera cases and deaths in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo where an outbreak has been ongoing since March, say humanitarian agencies.

At least 6,910 cases and 384 deaths had been reported as of 3 October, according to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), compared with a total of 3,896 cases and some 265 deaths by 20 July 2011.

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UN calls for urgent funds to deal with ongoing cholera outbreak in DR Congo
Cholera beds

18 November 2011 – The United Nations humanitarian arm warned today that $5.5 million is urgently needed from donors to combat an outbreak of cholera that has infected more than 17,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Elisabeth Byrs, a spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that extra resources are needed to continue the work of both UN aid agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in responding to the outbreak.

Four provinces along the Congo River – Bandundu, Equateur, Kinshasa and Orientale – are the worst affected by the epidemic, but cases have now been reported in eight of the country’s 11 provinces and the rainy season is about to begin.

OCHA said cholera is particularly difficult to tackle in the DRC because of the impoverished country’s persistent water, hygiene and sanitation problems. Many villages and communities do not have access to clean drinking water or to decent toilets, and people are often reluctant to report cases for either social or financial reasons.

The $5.5 million sought will be split between water and sanitation activities and a medical response, with the country’s western provinces the focus of most aid activities.

In July, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) already allocated $4 million so the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) can bolster their activities.

Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with the bacterium known as vibrio cholerae. The disease has a short incubation period and produces a toxin that causes continuous watery diarrhoea, a condition that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death if treatment is not administered promptly. Vomiting also occurs in most patients.

The disease remains a global threat and is one of the key indicators of social development, according to WHO. While cholera no longer poses a threat to countries with high standards of hygiene, it remains a challenge in countries with limited access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.

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Cholera Claims 23 Lives In
D.R.C. Equateur Province

In order to fight against this disease, the United
Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has organized
a training session for officials of 30 NGOs who will sensitize the public on proper hygiene measures
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KINSHASA (Xinhua) -- At least 23 people have died from cholera which broke out in Equateur province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), according to local sources.

“Even though the epidemic seems to have reduced in Mbandaka, cholera still affects some parts of the country especially in South Ubangi area in Equateur province where 15 people out of 119 cases that were reported since Nov. 5 have died. Eight other people died during the same period in Basankusu health zone,” the president of the local civil society groups, Modeste Bonkengu, said on Tuesday.

“In the town of Mbandaka, the cholera treatment center has not received any patient,” provincial Health Minister Mireille Betayi affirmed.

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Cholera killed 426 persons in Western DRCKinshasa : Congo (Dem. Rep.) | Dec 08, 2011 at 1:28 AM PST By Jean-Rene_Bompolonga

Since the beginning of epidemic in the four provinces situated along Congo River, the cholera situation presents a total of 7 722 cases with 426 deaths until December 5, 2011, announced an OCHA press release of Wednesday, December 7, 2011.
Equateur province with 3 040 cases and 140 deaths maintains the province more touched by the epidemic. Bandundu province has 2 301 cases and 138 deaths, Eastern Province has 1 631 cases and 84 deaths and Kinshasa has 750 cases with 39 deaths.

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Congo-Kinshasa: Spike in Cholera Cases - UN

27 January 2012


Cholera cases have soared in the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks, the UN said on Friday, bringing the number of people infected in the year-long outbreak to 22,000 with 584 deaths.

Aid agencies have been trying to halt the spread of the water-borne disease that has ravaged eight of the country's 11 provinces since January 2011.

"There has been a spike in cases" since mid-December, with figures on the rise in the capital Kinshasa in particular, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.

Cholera, a contagious intestinal infection, has taken its heaviest toll on eastern regions however, with a quarter of all cases reported in Sud-Kivu province.

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CONGO: Cholera "continues spreading"

BRAZZAVILLE, 21 February 2012 (IRIN) - Health authorities in the Republic of Congo have recorded 340 cases of cholera, nine of them fatal, since June 2011, in the northern district of Likouala, and have warned that the disease continues to spread and that some health centres lack sufficient treatment.

?Some deaths have not been taken into account because the [deceased?s] families have not reported them,? said Jean Martin Mabiala, the doctor in charge of health services in the district, adding that there were other suspected cases that had not been confirmed because of the remoteness of their locations.

He said the crew of a river boat from the Central African Republic had buried two people suspected to have died of cholera in early February.

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Source: http://www.rnw.nl/africa/article/cho...threatens-goma

Cholera epidemic threatens Gowa
Published on 8 March 2012
By Melanie Gouby, Goma

Cholera outbreaks regularly occur in Goma, capital of the DRC?s Northern Kivu province. Yet, in the past few weeks the disease has spread rapidly, claiming over 50 lives.

?Because of the shortage of clean water, we have to use the water from the lake for our daily drinking, cooking and washing. In our neighbourhood, three children and four women have already succumbed to the disease,? says Virginie Kahambu (30)...

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Translated from Humanitarian Information Bulletin Orientale Province March 13 2012

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The trend of cholera is decreasing thanks to the strengthening of community awareness and
better medical care. The Committee for the Fight against epidemics and natural disasters has
reported 39 cases and one death between 5 and March 11 against 100 cases and two deaths the previous week.
Thus, the December 5, 2011 to date, the district health authorities have counted 1,526 cases and 34 death
in the health zones (ZS) of Tchomia, Gety, Bunia, Lita, Drodro Jiba, Rwampara, Linga and Nizi. in
However, new cases are reported in Kisangani, in particular the town of Lubunga. according to
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), seven cases and two deaths were recorded between 20 and 26 February.
However, the situation remains under control. A cholera epidemic had hit Lubunga part of the
Kisangani in March 2011. It was reported over a thousand cases and fifty deaths.
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-- Disaster Preparedness & Response Weekly Bulletin, DR Congo --
Rapport Hebdomadaire I Pr?paration & R?ponse aux Urgences
Edition : du 05 au 11 mars 2012

OVERVIEW OF THE SITUATION
● PERSISTENCE OF CHOLERA IN DRC
▫ Lower Congo: further epidemic spread in new areas of health (Boma and Boma-Bungu), in addition to areas already epidemic (Muanda and Kitona). In Boma-Bungu, 15 new cases were registered against two suspects in Boma. The cumulative total of the week 4 to week 10 is 283 cases with 8 deaths (CFR 2.82%);
▫ City-Province of Kinshasa: 29 new cases notifi ed during the 10 weeks in several health zones (ZS) including 7 Maluku I, 5 to Kikimi, 4 to Masina II, 2 to Limete 1 to Kingabwa, Masina 1 to 9 and in other areas of health, making a cumulative total of 285 cases with 8 deaths (CFR 2.80%) from week 1 to week 10;
▫ North Kivu: 128 new cases with 2 deaths were noted during week 10 in the Eastern Province of the DRC. The Goma with these two health zones (Goma and Karisimbi) reported 36 cases, against 60 cases in week 9. The number of new cases is down to Goma, the provincial capital. By cons, the number of cases is rising to the areas of health Kirotshe (46 cases) and Mutwanga (31 cases). From week 1 to week 10, the North Kivu has already notified 1,662 cases ed with 17 deaths (CFR:
1.02%);
▫ South Kivu: 69 cases were reported during week 10. The ZS Uvira is the one that notification e more cases (39 cases). But the current trend is downward throughout the Province. From week 1 to week 10, the South Kivu has a cumulative total of 2,156 cases with 14 deaths (CFR 0.64%);
▫ Katanga: 109 new cases with 1 death were reported during the week above, the ZS being the Kinkondja most affected with 57 cases and one death followed by ZS Kalemie notified that 20 cases during the same period. From week 1 to 10, the Katanga has already totaled 1,297 cases with 17 deaths (CFR 1.31%);
▫ With their partners in the health sector (see Table 2), WHO and the Ministry of Public Health have developed a plan coordinated response against cholera to meet the needs of the population in the affected provinces, with emphasis
on a multi-sectoral response. Communities are constantly encouraged to protect themselves against cholera following the rules
of food safety and individual and collective hygiene.




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Humanitarian situation in Democratic Republic of Congo
Weekly briefing note to the press, March 28, 2012

Alarming increase of cholera in the DRC: the statistics of the first quarter approaching 40% of total cases registered in 2011.
Cholera remains a major health concern in all provinces of the Republic
Congo, with the exception of the two Kasai provinces. Trends suggest that if answers are not to scale implemented in the coming weeks, the situation may be more dramatic than in 2011.

According to statistics compiled by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO), 8144 cases including 120 deaths were recorded from 1 January to 27 March 2012, representing nearly 40% of
total cases registered in 2012. 6794 cases including 77 deaths were recorded in the eastern provinces of countries, suffering from chronic disease. These figures represent half of all cases reported in Katanga, Maniema, North Kivu, South Kivu and the Ituri district in 2011. The Province of South Kivu remains the most affected with 2,214 cases including 14 deaths since the beginning of the year.

In the provinces along the Congo River that are hit by the epidemic, Bandundu Province is the most affected with 528 cases including 16 deaths, followed by the Lower Congo with 379 cases including 8 deaths and the City of Kinshasa with 367 cases including 10 deaths.

Access to safe water and poor hygiene and sanitation remain major causes of the epidemic.
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CONGO: Cholera hits munitions blast displaced

BRAZZAVILLE, 2 April 2012 (IRIN) - A cholera outbreak is adding to the woes of thousands of people displaced by a huge munitions blast in the Congolese capital Brazzaville about a month ago, say officials.

?We have 10 confirmed cases of cholera,? Youssouf Gamati?, the UN World Health Organization?s representative in Congo, told IRIN.

Poor hygiene and sanitation conditions in the sites for the displaced as well as ongoing rains have helped spread the disease, which is affecting all age groups, added Gamati?.
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Bunia: over 600 cases of cholera recorded in Mahagi, 40 dead published 4 hours, 1 minute ago| Last Update April 6, 2012 at 6:28 |
More than six hundred cases of cholera were recorded in fourteen days in all health centers of Mahagi in the city of Bunia (Eastern Province). The administrator of the territory announced that the epidemic has already killed 40 people.
Areas affected by cholera are:
Logo
Angumu
Mahagi
Nyarambe.
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Ecuador: Cholera continues to kill in Mbandaka
Published 5 hours ago, 31 minutes | Last Update April 11, 2012 at 5:16 | under News , Ecuador , Health , Society .
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The cholera epidemic has killed five people on ninety two cases recorded in Mbandaka (Equator), said Tuesday, April 10 the medical director of the cholera treatment center (CTC), erected at the General Reference Wangata .
Dr. Pascal Boteko said that to date, three patients are admitted to the center which enjoys support in medicines and other inputs from UNICEF, WHO, Doctors Without Borders and the NGO Adra.
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Situation humanitaire en R?publique D?mocratique du Congo
Note d?information hebdomadaire ? la presse, 11 avril 2012

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More than 8,900 cholera cases including 140 deaths already recorded in 2012 in the DRC
? On April 10, 2012, the Democratic Republic of Congo has recorded 8,917 cases of
cholera with 140 deaths since the beginning of the year, according to statistics compiled
by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Public Health.
This represents 41% of all cases reported in 2011. South Kivu remains
the province most affected with 2,242 cases including 14 deaths, a fatality of 1%.
The highest lethality is registered in the Province of Ecuador with 221 cases
including 22 deaths, representing a 10% fatality. 13 health zones of the 69
province have reported cases. The Ituri district is experiencing strong growth
cholera with 1,437 cases reported already. The concern also stems from the fact that the
Cholera rages in Uganda while also cross-border trade is very
intense level of Mahagi and Aru.

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Rapport Hebdomadaire I Pr?paration & R?ponse aux Urgences Edition : du 02 au 08 avril 2012
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1. Cholera

Lower Congo: further increase in the number of cholera cases. During the 14th epidemiological week, 43 new cases were recorded in the health area (ZS) of Muanda and two other cases in the health area of Boma-Bungu.
The cumulative total of the 4th to the 14th week of 454 cases including 8 deaths (CFR 1.76%);
▫ City-Province of Kinshasa: 50 new cases with 2 deaths were noti ed during the 14th week in several health zones including 15 in Kingabwa, 13 in Maluku I, 7 to 6 to N'sele and Limete. The rest of the recorded cases are from ZS
Gombe Kikimi, Kimbanseke Kingasani and Ngaba. The persistence of the epidemic occurs in older homes (Kingabwa Limete Nsele and Maluku), followed by expansion into new areas such as Biyela, Matete, Ngaba and Kikimi. The total cumulative from 1st to the 14th week is 460 cases with 14 deaths (CFR 3.04%);
▫ South Kivu: 64 cases were reported during week 14. The ZS Fizi is one that notification e most cases (29), followed those of Uvira (18), Minova (12) and Nundu (4). A downward trend is observed throughout the Province. Of
Week 1 to Week 14, South Kivu has a cumulative total of 2,480 cases with 14 deaths (CFR 0.56%);
▫ Eastern Province: 389 new cases with 19 deaths (CFR 4.88%) were reported during week 14, mainly in the health district of Ituri (north-eastern DRC). The ZS Nyarambe is most affected with 117 cases including 5 deaths. Other ZS Province are strongly affected: Banalia (59 cases with 1 death), Isangi (49 with 1 death), Angumu (42 cases with 5 deaths), Tchomia (41 cases), Mahagi (17 cases with 2 deaths), Nizi (15 cases), Logo (12 cases with 1 death) and Bunia (8 cases). From week 1 to week 14, the Eastern Province accused a cumulative total of 2,444 cases with 78 deaths (CFR: 3.19%).
▫ Since the beginning of 2012, the DRC has already recorded a cumulative total of 10,342 cases of cholera with 190 deaths (CFR: 1.83%) for the whole country (in epidemic areas and those experiencing endemic and epidemic). During the year last, the country totaled 21,700 cases of cholera with 584 deaths (CFR 2.69%). The answer to control this epidemic is supported by a grant from CERF managed by WHO and UNICEF.
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