Friday, January 9, 2009
DRC Suspected Ebola Cases Rise to 44
08 January 2008
Dr. Michel Van Herp is with Doctors Without Borders. He is the head of mission in Kaluamba and spoke to VOA’s English to Africa Service reporter Joe De Capua about the current situation there.
“For today, we have 44 cases in the data base and among them we have 13 deaths. It’s clear that among the cases, we still need to…work to determine very well who are probable of (having) Ebola and who is not (infected with) Ebola,” he says.
Lab tests are currently underway to determine the exact number of Ebola cases and those tests cannot be done in the field.
January 15, 2009
Have detected symptoms of the disease in 46 people, of whom 14 have died
Throughout the past few days have detected what appears to be an outbreak of Ebola (highly lethal hemorrhagic fever) in Kasai Occidental, in the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo, have been alerted as Doctors Without Borders. A total of 46 people have developed symptoms very similar to those of the disease and 14 have already died. In addition, there are seven confirmed cases and are being monitored daily for more than 200 people have been exposed to the virus. The epicenter of the epidemic is probably in a town called Kaluamba, located 65 kilometers south of Mweka, the main city in the region.
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