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Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared\u00a0a resurgence of Ebola late last night, following confirmation of one case in the country\u2019s eastern province of North Kivu. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A 46-year-old woman died on 15 August 2022 in Beni, a town located in North Kivu.\u00a0She received care at the Beni Referral Hospital, initially for other ailments, but subsequently\u00a0exhibited symptoms consistent with Ebola virus disease\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both the Beni and Goma branches of the country\u2019s National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB) confirmed Ebola virus in samples\u00a0taken from the patient. Analyses showed that the case was genetically linked to the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri Provinces\u2014the country\u2019s longest and largest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEbola resurgences are occurring with greater frequency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which is concerning. However, health authorities in North Kivu have successfully stopped several Ebola flare-ups and building on this expertise will no doubt bring this one under control quickly,\u201d said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
WHO staff and health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo working to stem the spread of the disease, having identified 160 contacts whose health is being closely monitored. Investigations are ongoing to determine the vaccination status of the confirmed case.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are 1000 doses\u00a0of the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccines available in the country\u2019s stockpile, 200 of which will be sent to Beni this week.\u00a0Ring-vaccination\u2014where contacts and contacts of contacts are vaccinated to curb the spread of the virus and protect lives\u2014is expected to begin shortly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The last flare-up in North Kivu\u2019s Beni health zone was brought under control in about two months, ending on 16 December 2021. There were 11 cases (eight confirmed, three probable), including six deaths.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of World Health Organization (WHO) – Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/i><\/p>\n
Source<\/a> Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared\u00a0a resurgence of Ebola late last night, following confirmation of one case in the country\u2019s eastern province of North Kivu. \u00a0 A 46-year-old woman died on 15 August 2022 in Beni, a town located in North Kivu.\u00a0She received care at the Beni Referral Hospital, initially for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":90538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1661274018_166_418.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[258,256,4696,4554,7030,6404,281,4691,450,279,280,1111,292,257,6732,5935,13657,254],"class_list":["post-90537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dr-congo","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central-africa","tag-congo","tag-declares","tag-democratic","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-dr-congo","tag-dr-congo-news","tag-drc","tag-drc-news","tag-ebola","tag-kivu","tag-news","tag-north","tag-republic","tag-resurgence","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1661274018_166_418.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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