​Cameroon - Three deaths in same family in Yaounde - negative for Ebola, Marburg and Lassa - meningitis confirmed

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Minsant? denies rumors of Ebola fever in Cameroon

Posted on 29.01.2018 at 15h27 by Franck Foute

The Minister of Public Health, Andr? Mama Fouda, announces that three cases of deaths from fevers were recorded in the city of Yaound? between January 8 and January 22, 2018. These deaths occurred in the same family, in a table. acute fevers, rashes and bleeding suggestive of viral haemorrhagic fever. Andre Mama Fouda says the tests have been negative for Ebola, Marburg and Lassa. He also invites all citizens with symptoms of fever with rash, to immediately go to the nearest health center.

https://www.journalducameroun.com/i...ante-dement-rumeurs-de-fievre-ebola-cameroun/

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Press release (in french):

http://www.minsante.cm/site/?q=fr/c...-survenus-dans-une-famille-résidant-à-yaoundé

 

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Cameroon: 4 cases, 3 deaths, due to undiagnosed hemorrhagic fever - Ebola, Lassa, Marburg ruled out

Published Date: 2018-01-30 18:30:47
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Undiagnosed hemorrhagic illness - Cameroon: RFI
Archive Number: 20180130.5595542
UNDIAGNOSED HEMORRHAGIC ILLNESS - CAMEROON: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
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Date: Mon 29 Jan 2018
Source: Ministry of Public Health press release [edited]
http://www.minsante.cm/site/?q=fr/c...-survenus-dans-une-famille-r?sidant-?-yaound?


Between 8-22 Jan 2018, the surveillance and health watch mechanism of the Centre Region reported 3 deaths in a family residing in Yaounde, due to acute onset of fever, rashes and bleeding suggestive of viral hemorrhagic fever. One of the members of this family, whose vital prognosis is not [available], is currently receiving medical follow-up in the hospital.

Preliminary tests carried out were negative for Ebola, Marburg and Lassa viruses.

More investigation is ongoing. Mr. Andre Mama Fouda calls on anyone with fever accompanied by a rash with or without bleeding to go immediately to the nearest health facility.

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[Melissa Dudley is thanked for sending in this press release.

Andre Mama Fouda, Cameroon's Minister of Public Health, has said there is no Ebola virus outbreak in Cameroon (https://www.journalducameroun.com/en/no-ebola-outbreak-cameroon-minister/). Although Ebola, Marburg and Lassa fever virus infections have been ruled out in preliminary tests, Rift Valley fever and yellow fever remain a possibility. Undiagnosed cases of rash with fatalities have been reported previously from Cameroon by ProMED-mail, but not hemorrhagic illnesses. ProMED-mail would appreciate receiving information about any additional cases that might occur or additional laboratory results. - Mod.TY

A HealthMap/ProMED-mail map showing the location of Cameroon can be accessed at: http://healthmap.org/promed/p/34100

 

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Societe Sant?: no Ebola virus in Cameroon

Jeanine FANKAM | 02-02-2018 11:37

Analyzes made following the suspicious deaths of three members of the same family in Yaounde have revealed severe meningitis.

The meningococcus, germ responsible for meningitis is responsible for the death of three members of the same family, which occurred between January 8 and 22 in Yaounde. This is the main information contained in a communiqu? signed by Andr? Mama Fouda, Minister of Public Health (Minsant?).

The victims had haemorrhagic fever with rash. After the first tests that dismissed the suspicions about Marburg and Lassa Ebola viruses, investigations continued in the laboratory. Today, there is no doubt. The meningococcus who attacked these victims was particularly severe and took them away, one after the other after a few days.

Dr. Georges Alain Etoundi Mballa, Director of the Fight Against Disease, Endemics and Epidemics at the Ministry of Public Health, explains that since the occurrence of the tragedy, a monitoring and surveillance system has been deployed to observe the family concerned and all those who have had direct contact with it. The device was also on alert throughout the territory. Since then, nothing! No other case of similar illness, he argues.

"The watch cell remains alert," said Dr. Etoundi Mballa, after the meeting. He also recalled that last year, an epidemic of meningitis had occurred in neighboring Nigeria and had caused many casualties. In Cameroon, it is in the central prison of Kondengui that an outbreak of this disease was observed in March, but quickly circumscribed.

The director of the fight against the disease recalls that meningitis is a dry season disease that first attacks the nasal mucous membranes and mouth. He advises to avoid keeping your nose dry. Vaccination against the strains responsible for the meningitis epidemic is also a recommended means of protection.

Vaccines are available at the Pasteur Center. It is advisable to strictly observe the rules of hygiene whenever necessary.

https://www.cameroon-tribune.cm/articles/16136/fr/santé-pas-de-virus-ebola-au-cameroun
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Press release on unusual deaths (in french)

http://www.minsante.cm/site/?q=fr/content/communiqué-de-presse-décès-inhabituels

 

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Malaria: a quarantined medicine

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Jeanine FANKAM | 05-02-2018 15:01

The instruction of the Minister of Public Health on Co-Aritane tablet is contained in a press release last Friday.

Is there any counterfeit in tablet Co-Arinate, adult or child? Is this medicine the cause of the death of a child occurred in January in Yaounde? For both questions, the answer is no! A categorical "no" to all the pharmacists that the Cameroon Tribune reporter has approached, from the leaders of the Order to the simple members. The communiqu? of the Minister of Public Health also seems to dismiss these suspicions. Andr? Mama Fouda is clear that it is as a precautionary principle that he instructed "the quarantine of Co-Arinate indexed in a recent public health problem ...".

"The recent public health problem" to which the minister refers is an allusion to the death of a child who was one of three deaths in a family in Yaounde between January 8 and 22, following a bleeding hemorrhagic fever. skin.

The baby had absorbed the tablet-child Co-Arinate purchased at a pharmacy in the square. Her death sometime later is attributed to the family taking the drug, which would argue that the medicine bought in a pharmacy was false.

Its argument would be the presentation of the packaging. This packaging presents the image of a mosquito-like insect. However, there is another packaging of the same drug that does not have the design of the mosquito.

Only, the pharmacists are unanimous: they recognize the existence of the two conditionings, but affirm that the product in one and the other case is good. It only happens that the laboratory that manufactures Co-Arinate tablet, child and adult has requested a modification of the Marketing Authorization of its product by proposing a new packaging compared to the one previously approved, explains Dr. Ampouam Christophe, vice-president of the Ordre des pharmaciens.

No advertising has accompanied this change, it must have caused confusion, but pharmacists are unanimous that the composition remains the same in both packages. They strongly refute the hypothesis that it may have cost the life of the named child, especially since two other family members with the same clinical signs died while they had not taken Co-Arinate. .

A recent statement from Minsant? reported that laboratory investigations have determined that a severe form of meningitis is the cause of the three deaths. "A medicine against malaria can not kill in 15 minutes. In this time, the product has not yet had time to be resorbed and metabolized, "says Dr. Albert-Didier Mbida, pharmacist. Pending more precise investigations, the Minsant? ordered its provisional withdrawal from the pharmaceutical counters.

https://www.cameroon-tribune.cm/articles/16175/fr/

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Press release on antimalarial drugs (in french)

http://www.minsante.cm/site/?q=fr/c...presse-relatif-aux-médicaments-antipaludiques