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CAR: Yellow fever epidemic hits south-western region
APA Bangui (Central African Republic) A yellow fever outbreak is rocking the Boda sub-prefecture mainly in the Ngotto village, in south-western CAR, sources confirmed here Friday.
The minister of Public Health, Population and AIDS Control, Faustin Ntelnoumbi confirmed the outbreak in a press release issued in the capital.
The statement urged all the population in general and particularly those in areas at risk to quickly evacuating to the relevant care facilities anyone showing symptoms highly suggestive of yellow fever: sudden fever attack with jaundice and bleeding eyes, gums and noise.
Such symptoms occur in the two weeks following the appearance of the first symptoms of this hemorrhagic viral disease transmitted to men through bites by mosquito "Aedes Aegypti" which is infested by the "amaril virus".
"Aedes Aegypti" lives in gallery forests and in areas surrounded by thick savannahs crossed by streams filled with viruses that are monkeys, the naturally hosting the amaril virus.
In its statement, the Health ministry urged the international community to provide the support necessary to the ongoing efforts in order to stop the epidemic and provide its expertise to tighten the monitoring of the yellow fever and any other potentially epidemic diseases across the country.
According to the statement, yellow fever case was reported in the Boda sub-prefecture on 22 August in a 32-year old male patient.
The Pasteur Institute in Bangui and the one in Dakar where the blood sample taken on the patient was sent confirmed the initial diagnosis.
On the other hand, no new case has been diagnosed following additional samples taken in the Boda village as part of an investigation conducted by the epidemiological surveillance department in the Public Health ministry.
The findings of the tests made at the Pasteur Institute in Bangui show however that the patient is positive.
CAR: Yellow fever epidemic hits south-western region
APA Bangui (Central African Republic) A yellow fever outbreak is rocking the Boda sub-prefecture mainly in the Ngotto village, in south-western CAR, sources confirmed here Friday.
The minister of Public Health, Population and AIDS Control, Faustin Ntelnoumbi confirmed the outbreak in a press release issued in the capital.
The statement urged all the population in general and particularly those in areas at risk to quickly evacuating to the relevant care facilities anyone showing symptoms highly suggestive of yellow fever: sudden fever attack with jaundice and bleeding eyes, gums and noise.
Such symptoms occur in the two weeks following the appearance of the first symptoms of this hemorrhagic viral disease transmitted to men through bites by mosquito "Aedes Aegypti" which is infested by the "amaril virus".
"Aedes Aegypti" lives in gallery forests and in areas surrounded by thick savannahs crossed by streams filled with viruses that are monkeys, the naturally hosting the amaril virus.
In its statement, the Health ministry urged the international community to provide the support necessary to the ongoing efforts in order to stop the epidemic and provide its expertise to tighten the monitoring of the yellow fever and any other potentially epidemic diseases across the country.
According to the statement, yellow fever case was reported in the Boda sub-prefecture on 22 August in a 32-year old male patient.
The Pasteur Institute in Bangui and the one in Dakar where the blood sample taken on the patient was sent confirmed the initial diagnosis.
On the other hand, no new case has been diagnosed following additional samples taken in the Boda village as part of an investigation conducted by the epidemiological surveillance department in the Public Health ministry.
The findings of the tests made at the Pasteur Institute in Bangui show however that the patient is positive.