Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Congo Kinshasa denied medical experts have hemorrhagic fever outbreak

2009-1-14 23:39:48 Source: Xinhua

KINSHASA, January 14 (Xinhua Wang), according to the United Nations in Congo (Kinshasa) mission on the 14th radio station reported that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of the medical experts to deny the country the same day the city of the capital, Kinshasa, appeared in patients with Ebola haemorrhagic fever in order to refute the rumors on the.

Recently, there have been rumors that the city of Kinshasa was found in patients with Ebola haemorrhagic fever. However, Congo (Kinshasa) National Institute of Biomedical so -雅克穆Yam Pui noted that Ebola haemorrhagic fever patients have fever, severe diarrhea, and malaria, diarrhea diseases, such as some of the symptoms, but Kinshasa is currently not found in patients with Ebola haemorrhagic fever.

Mu Yam Pui said that in November last year in Congo (Kinshasa) Kasai Province emerging Ebola haemorrhagic fever has been effectively controlled. He also reminded the Congo (DRC) to enhance public health awareness and vigilance of the epidemic, timely reports to the departments concerned in patients with suspected Ebola haemorrhagic fever.

Since November last year, is located in the Congo (DRC) capital, Kinshasa, about 700 kilometers east of the province of Kasai Occidental姆维卡region of Ebola haemorrhagic fever epidemic, 14 local residents have been infected died.

In 1976, southern Sudan and Zaire, now Congo (Kinshasa) Ebola River unknown number of residents infected with the virus, most of those who died of infection, the virus was later named Ebola virus. Ebola virus infection in human blood and secretions, can cause Ebola haemorrhagic fever, the disease's death rate is about 50-90 percent. At present, the medical profession has not yet developed a vaccine to prevent this disease.

Editor: Zhang Xiaoyu

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