Saturday, December 27, 2008

New Ebola outbreak in DRC: MSF has set up an isolation unit

KINSHASA - The NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has set up an isolation unit for people suspected of being affected by the Ebola virus in the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said Saturday holder Critic MSF.

. The Congolese Minister of Health, Augustin Mopipi, had said Thursday that a new outbreak of Ebola was reported in late November in this part of the country, killing at least nine deaths and 21 patients identified.

This epidemic has emerged in the town of Kampungu, more than 60 km from Mueka in the province of Kasai Occidental (center), the Minister stated that the analysis of samples confirmed the presence of hemorrhagic fever d 'Ebola.

MSF, which has a team of nine people on the spot, set up a small unit of six isolation beds Kaluamba "near Kampungu, said a spokesman for the NGO, François Dumont.

"Right now, all patients with suspicious symptoms are still isolated and monitored at home. The team has not registered any new patient may be suffering from Ebola," he added.

According to him, the number of patients is still 33 ", since 27 November.

"The number one priority for MSF is to continue the investigations as soon as possible to better understand the epidemic and prevent its spread. Several rumors about the existence of new cases or deaths of suspects have been heard in recent days, reflecting a sense of fear among the population, "added the spokesman.

Maladie très contagieuse, mortelle dans 50 à 90% des cas, Ebola avait déjà frappé l'ex-Zaïre à trois reprises. Highly contagious disease, fatal in 50 to 90% of cases, Ebola had struck the former Zaire on three occasions.

En 1976, le virus a tué près de 500 personnes de part et d'autre de la frontière entre le Soudan et le nord-est du Zaïre, où il avait ressurgi en 1995, faisant 245 morts dans la province du Bandundu (ouest). In 1976, the virus has killed nearly 500 people on both sides of the border between Sudan and north-eastern Zaire, where he resurfaced in 1995, with 245 deaths in the Bandundu province (west).

En 2007, 26 cas confirmés d'Ebola avaient été enregistrés dans la même province du Kasaï occidental, où plusieurs épidémies associées (Ebola, fièvre typhoïde, malaria, dysenterie) ont tué 187 personnes. In 2007, 26 confirmed cases of Ebola had been registered in the province of Kasai Occidental, where several outbreaks associated (Ebola, typhoid fever, malaria, dysentery) killed 187 people.

(©AFP / 27 décembre 2008 09h40) (© AFP / 27 December 2008 09:40)

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