DRC - 12 cases of yellow fever in Kongo Central, suspected cases in former Kasai Occidental

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Five suspected cases of yellow fever recorded in Kongo Central

Published on Thurs, 03/10/2016 - 4:03 p.m. | Edited on Thurs 10/03/2016 - 4:03 p.m.

Five suspected cases of yellow fever have been registered in the province of Kongo Central, reported medical sources who have reported two deaths.

According to the provincial medical inspector, Dr Oscar Mavila, all reported cases come from neighboring Angola.

The source asked the public not to be alarmed. Samples were taken from the patients and sent to the National Institute of Biological Research (INRB) in Kinshasa for analysis.

http://www.radiookapi.net/2016/03/10/actualite/en-bref/cinq-cas-suspects-de-fievre-jaune-enregistres-au-kongo-central

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Central Kongo: no measures despite the seven suspicious deaths of yellow fever

By Benita on March 15, 2016 Sambu

In Kongo central border to Angola, 14 suspected cases of yellow fever have recently been recorded in three general hospitals of reference. Among them, seven patients died. While samples are sent to the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB) in Kinshasa no action has yet been taken by the government.

According to Dr. Bijou Soki, medical director of the Kinkanda reference general hospital in Matadi, '' four yellow fever suspected cases were recorded in Matadi, including three deaths. But the Kongo Central in all notified 14 cases including 7 deaths in Songololo and Kimpese included ''.

However he calms: '' Yellow fever is not yet declared as epidemic, we are on alert. We have sent samples to Kinshasa. ''
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Subjects from Luanda with suspected yellow fever in Kongo-central

Kinshasa, 16/03/2016 / Health

The insalubrity that prevail in some parts of the suburbs of Luanda would be the basis of that yellow fever.

The news reaching us from Luanda, the capital of the Republic of Angola, are not good, especially since they show an epidemic raging there. It is yellow fever. This pathology, we learn of sources, sure do not give much chance to the victims before death ensues.

Our sources contacted on site did not give us exactly all information, including the duration of the disease in Luanda and the number of victims already registered so far. However, we were able to realize, in Kinshasa, the damage caused by this disease, with regard to the number of funerals held here and there, in Kinshasa in families whose members have died in Luanda, following that yellow fever.

Recently, Radio Top Congo, relayed this information, indicating that subjects with this disease have been detected, including one from Noki, an Angolan town near the city of Matadi. This patient would have come for care at the Kinkanda Reference General Hospital, while the other victim was recorded in Songololo, a Kongo Central frontier territory with Angola.

As for us, the Kongo Central Zone chief physician would have taken necessary measures in order to protect this area. But more important to do, we hope, would be to have emergency health teams at the different border posts separating us from the neighboring country in order to carry out systematic controls and, if necessary, carry out vaccinations, to prevent the spread of this disease on Congolese territory, starting with the Kongo Central where suspected cases have already been detected.
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DRC: there is no yellow fever epidemic, according to the Minister of Health

Published on Tues., 03/22/2016 - 1:23 p.m. | Edited on Tues. 03/22/2016 - 1:23 p.m.

The Minister of Health, Felix Kabange Numbi said Monday, March 21 that there is no yellow fever epidemic in the DRC. Suspected cases of yellow fever were recorded since the beginning of this month in the Kongo Central Province.

The minister confirmed cases of yellow fever are "imported cases". The patients came from Angola, where the disease is occuring since the month of December.

"We had about twenty suspects. About twenty eight samples were taken from these patients. And at the INRB [National Institute of Biomedical Research, ed], seven samples were positive. We sent the samples to Dakar for confirmation, "said Felix Kabange.

There is a case in Kimpese, three in Sonampangu, two in Matadi and another case in the outskirts of the city of Matadi.

Felix Kabange Numbi said, without elaborating, that measures are taken at the border with Angola to contain the disease.

The Minister further recommends to the inhabitants of the border provinces of Angola and those of the city of Kinshasa to sleep under mosquito nets and to observe hygiene, including environmental sanitation to prevent the proliferation of Aedes mosquitoes that transmit yellow fever.

Medical sources of Kongo Central recently told Radio Okapi that six people had died of yellow fever in Kongo Central.
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Yellow fever surveillance measures strengthened in the former Kasai Occidental

Published on Tues, 05/04/2016 - 2:51 p.m. | Edited on Tues., 5/4/2016 - 2:51 p.m.

Health authorities in the of the former Kasai Occidental province reinforced, since three days, epidemiological surveillance in the health areas of Lwiza and Kamako to contain the epidemic of yellow fever declared last December in neighboring Angola. They claim to have reported two suspected cases of yellow fever in the Kamonia health zone and three in the Tshikapa (Kasai).

Samples taken in the Tshikapa health zone were sent to the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB) in Kinshasa.

Two other suspected cases of yellow fever were reported in the Lwambo health zone, at the post of Lwiza and these samples were also shipped last week in the capital.

Apart from surveillance, a contingency plan is being developed to prevent the spread of the epidemic.

In March, the Minister of Health, Felix Kabange Numbi, indicated that confirmed cases of yellow fever are "imported cases" that would come from Angola.
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Kongo Central: the authorities sensitize against yellow fever

Published on Mon 04/04/2016 - 12:15 | Edited on Mon 04/04/2016 - 24:22

Th?r?se-Louise Mambu claims to have identified fifty eight cases of fevers, but only twelve cases were confirmed as yellow fever at the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB) in Kinshasa.

Following this, she called the people of Kongo Central to observe responsible behavior:

"Of the twelve cases were confirmed yellow fever, there are two that have been certified by Dakar, these are cases of yellow fever and all these cases came from Angola. But what we need to do is this responsible behavior [consisting of] route each case of persistent fever to the hospital or health centers and be careful not to say it is that brings jaundice in a traditional practitioner. "

Provincial Minister of Kongo Central Health reiterated the government's commitment to strengthen preventive measures in all borders.

"We vaccinia [people traveling] to prevent this disease, we must not panic," said Therese Louise Mambu Nyangi.

In March, seven cases of yellow fever were recorded including a case in Kimpese Sonampangu three to two in Matadi and another case in the outskirts of the city of Matadi (Kongo Central).
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Cases of yellow fever treated at the general reference hospital of Boma

April 6th, 2016 ?

Boma, April 6, 2016 (ACP) .- A woman sick with yellow fever was treated and healed at Boma Reference General Hospital where she was interned, and one admitted to the same hospital awaiting confirmation of this disease after lab results, said the chief doctor of Boma health zone, Dr Kennedy Nzebo, in an interview Wednesday with the CPA.

This woman, sick from the Republic of Angola where she resides, entered the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the city of Soyo border in the province of Central Kongo, noted Dr. Nzebo, noting that once saved from her illness, she returned to Angola, his country of origin.

The suspected case of yellow fever is that of a military wife naval forces, whose samples were sent to Kinshasa to attest this disease, did it noted.
The order to vaccinate all agents Boma reference general hospital in contact with this patient was given in order to avoid contamination in the event of certification of a new case of yellow fever.

The head doctor of Boma health zone took the opportunity to urge the population to its jurisdiction caution before recommending vaccination of children aged 9 months.

Fevers and abdominal pain are signs of yellow fever, noted Dr. Nzebo which proposes to organize a vaccination campaign against the disease in Boma by June. ACP / Fng / ZNG / JGD / Fmb

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