Friday, January 2, 2009

Kananga: Ebola, the population aware applications on hygiene measures

Kasai Occidental Health 02 January 2009 at 11:13:40 a.m.


This awareness aims to eradicate the Ebola virus. This is one of the resolutions of the crisis meeting held Wednesday in Kananga by the United Nations Mission in Congo, MONUC and UN agencies. During the meeting, participants were also informed of the progress of the disease on field reports radiookapi.net

This awareness will be done in a short time, with particular emphasis on population health zones of Mweka and Luebo. It will educate them not to pick and eat the dead animal by itself. The population is also known not to eat the meat of the bat, regarded as the great reservoir of Ebola. It will also be sensitized on general hygiene, to maintain its own environment. These measures will be associated with notions of basic signs to allow them to detect the disease.

As for the evolution of the disease, the World Health Organization, WHO / Kasai Occidental, spoke of 228 people who had contact with sick Thursday, against 214 on Wednesday.
Dr. Edmond Magazani always Kambale confirmed 12 deaths since the beginning of this disease. For its part, MSF-Belgium is studying ways to move, by Saturday, the center of the village of isolation Kaluamba, epicenter of the epidemic to Kampumu, where premises have been more appropriate disponibilisés during the epidemic of 2007.

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