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Information on the disease Ebola in Equateur (DRC) No. 2 on 25 August 2014
Category: Status Reports Publication Date
1 status of the disease
Declaration of the epidemic by the Minister of Public Health on August 24, 2014
13 people died of the disease (CFR 54%), including five health workers, on 24 suspected cases (16 women and 8 men)
11 people held in isolation
24 cases (16 women and 8 men) of Ebola virus disease identified in the area of health Boende, from July 28 to August 18, 2014
80 contacts identified for monitoring
4 samples positive out of 8 after a second analysis INRB
565 suspected cases investigated with gastroenteritis, diarrhea and vomiting.
Index cases identified at Ikanamongo (100 km of Boende): a woman who died on August 11 after consuming bushmeat hunted by her husband and that contaminated her doctor and her husband.
Strain not yet unidentified , between Zaire and Sudan. Awaiting the results from the laboratory in Franceville (Gabon).
No link between the epidemic of West Africa, given the remoteness of the area.
7th epidemic since 1976, date of the discovery of the disease in the DRC
No cases reported in Kinshasa or Mbandaka
2 information on the disease
Fatality rate can reach 90%.
Transmission to humans from wild animals and then spread in populations by human transmission
No vaccine or specific treatment approved, either for humans or animals.
3 Geography places
Isolated area, surrounded by two rivers
4 health areas concerned in the health zone of Boende, at 1200 km from Kinshasa
http://www.rdc-humanitaire.net/inde...bola-dans-l-equateur-rdc-no-2-au-25-aout-2014
Information on the disease Ebola in Equateur (DRC) No. 2 on 25 August 2014
Category: Status Reports Publication Date
1 status of the disease
Declaration of the epidemic by the Minister of Public Health on August 24, 2014
13 people died of the disease (CFR 54%), including five health workers, on 24 suspected cases (16 women and 8 men)
11 people held in isolation
24 cases (16 women and 8 men) of Ebola virus disease identified in the area of health Boende, from July 28 to August 18, 2014
80 contacts identified for monitoring
4 samples positive out of 8 after a second analysis INRB
565 suspected cases investigated with gastroenteritis, diarrhea and vomiting.
Index cases identified at Ikanamongo (100 km of Boende): a woman who died on August 11 after consuming bushmeat hunted by her husband and that contaminated her doctor and her husband.
Strain not yet unidentified , between Zaire and Sudan. Awaiting the results from the laboratory in Franceville (Gabon).
No link between the epidemic of West Africa, given the remoteness of the area.
7th epidemic since 1976, date of the discovery of the disease in the DRC
No cases reported in Kinshasa or Mbandaka
2 information on the disease
Fatality rate can reach 90%.
Transmission to humans from wild animals and then spread in populations by human transmission
No vaccine or specific treatment approved, either for humans or animals.
3 Geography places
Isolated area, surrounded by two rivers
4 health areas concerned in the health zone of Boende, at 1200 km from Kinshasa
http://www.rdc-humanitaire.net/inde...bola-dans-l-equateur-rdc-no-2-au-25-aout-2014