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5th August 2018 17:31
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Re: Haemorrhagic fever / Ebola outbreaks have been reported - accident, natural or bio-weapon?
2 days later, the recent outbreak in NE DR Congo has spread to 33 dead.
An additional 43 suspected cases of Ebola were reported, including 13 confirmed by lab testing, according to WHO.
The outbreak is spreading through five health zones in North Kivu province and one health zone in Ituri province.
North Kivu also hosts over 1 million displaced people and there is fighting between government forces and armed militant groups. Patient tracking is next to impossible.
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7th August 2018 16:12
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Re: Haemorrhagic fever / Ebola outbreaks have been reported - accident, natural or bio-weapon?
Zimbabwe Africa goes on high alert checking for Ebola in travelers (temperature check/background history) at it's borders.
Another person dies in DR Congo. 34 reported died. 63 probable or suspected cases remain, up by 20 from the last few days.
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9th August 2018 10:08
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Re: Haemorrhagic fever / Ebola outbreaks have been reported - accident, natural or bio-weapon?
As of Wednesday 8th August 36 have died in the NE region of DR Congo from the infection of Ebola Zaire strain.
The primary solution to the outbreak is to massively immunize using the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine (still listed as experimental).
Health workers will be the first to be vaccinated.
The new deaths were reported in the towns of Beni and Mabalako, in the northern part of the Kivu province. North Kivu province is among Congo's most populated provinces, with eight million inhabitants.
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15th August 2018 04:11
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Re: Haemorrhagic fever / Ebola outbreaks have been reported - accident, natural or bio-weapon?
41 now dead and 7 health care workers infected...
A total of 57 cases have been identified, which officials say have grown larger than the previous outbreak.
Voice of America (VOA) is announcing that the consensus is this outbreak could be worse than the others recently..
At the moment 216 health workers and 20 people from the community have been vaccinated against Ebola.
Vaccination seems to be the ONLY solution to being able to quell this outbreak..
Health workers have begun working on case identification and contact tracing, as well as community outreach and educational programs. WHO is working with countries neighboring DRC, and is helping Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan strengthen their surveillance and screening programs to try to prevent the deadly Ebola virus from crossing their borders.
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16th August 2018 10:56
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Another has died bringing the current reported death total to 42; the person formerly from Mandima, DR Congo.
There are 9 new confirmed cases, including 6 in Mandima and 3 in Mabalako.
Overall, that's 39 confirmed and 27 probable cases, and 36 suspected cases are under investigation .
The current Ebola outbreak has spread into a neighboring province, the health ministry said.
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18th August 2018 04:13
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As of Friday evening, there are 78 Ebola Zaire cases, 2 more people have died, making it now 44 deaths, and there are 10 health workers infected.
It's now 51 confirmed cases, and the 27 probably is remaining constant.
This current outbreak in NE DR Congo is now larger than the previous outbreak in Equateur province (DR Congo) that was declared over July 24. During that outbreak, 53 cases were reported, including 29 deaths.
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19th August 2018 16:04
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Re: Haemorrhagic fever / Ebola outbreaks have been reported - accident, natural or bio-weapon?
As of Sunday, there are now 49 deaths reported, 5 more since Friday evening.
There are now 90 cases reported.
Confirmed cases are now up to 63. There are 27 listed as "probably Ebola" and that number appears to be remaining constant. (There is a 21 day wait and see period which accounts for the "probably").
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Field teams also identified 2,157 "contacts"—people who may have been in contact with the virus—according to the health ministry.
"May have had contact" - most worrisome.. A wildfire like (exponential) outbreak is a potential. Field teams have not said what the odds are for "probable", or "presenting symptoms".
ref: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-...-contacts.html Medical Express dot com
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21st August 2018 18:35
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Re: Haemorrhagic fever / Ebola outbreaks have been reported - accident, natural or bio-weapon?
As of today, reported are 55 dead, and confirmed cases for the Ebola Zaire infection, 69.
This outbreak is currently 3 weeks in duration.
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24th August 2018 14:30
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Re: Haemorrhagic fever / Ebola outbreaks have been reported - accident, natural or bio-weapon?
3 days later the reports are 103 people are now infected with the Ebola Zaire strain of the virus, in the NE part of DR Congo.
The deaths reported are now at 63, up by 8 from the last few days.
One of the doctors treating people in the town of Oicho in North Kivu, has come down with the virus infection.
There are 14 healthcare workers with confirmed or probable infections, and one death among those healthcare workers.
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24th August 2018 22:59
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Friday evening, two more people showed as infected, NE DR Congo. Total death count up by 4, now at 67.
11 previously infected Ebola Zaire virus strain Patients have now survived, and have been released from care.
There were 2 of the released patients that survived treated with a monoclonal antibody called "mab114" (the MAB series of monoclonal antibody treatments have been discussed earlier in this thread).
Close to 3000 people have been vaccinated (Merck vaccine) since the start of this outbreak Aug 8th, 2018. The experimental vaccine has been shown to be effective.
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27th August 2018 00:29
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Re: Haemorrhagic fever / Ebola outbreaks have been reported - accident, natural or bio-weapon?
Recent Ebola Zaire strain virus map of NE DR Congo:
Uganda neighboring NE DR Congo is insisting that any people entering the Country step in chlorinated water baths to decontaminate their feet/shoes as well as having their temperature taken.
Currently, 105 confirmed or suspected cases are being reported.
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28th August 2018 13:23
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As of late August 25, a total of 111 cases were reported, of which 83 are confirmed and 28 probable. This includes 72 deaths.
Fourteen health-care workers have been infected, with one dead.
The cases have been reported in five health zones in North Kivu province and one health zone in Ituri.
All the cases have been traced back to the outbreak's epicenter in Mabalako, according to the WHO.
5 different treatments are being tested apparently - The Merck produced vaccine (originally from Canada) appears to be the method of choice. On August 20, 7,160 additional doses of vaccines arrived in Kinshasa and were to be promptly transported to Beni. An additional 2,160 doses of vaccine were expected to be shipped by the end of last week.
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29th August 2018 16:09
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The deaths from the Ebola Zaire virus spread is now up to 75 as reported by the Health Ministry of the DR Congo.
This could be a lull, or the vaccination efforts have served to quell the development of the virus into fully presenting. It is possible education campaigns and social media dialog within people in the affected areas have worked and people are being more cautious. "Communicate", "Educate", take "Precautions" apparently is the mantra.
The World Health Organization (WHO) states that the next seven to 10 days are critical in controlling the spread of the current Ebola virus outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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7th September 2018 22:49
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After a brief respite the Ebola Zaire strain which had resurfaced in NE DR Congo has spread into Butembo, a city of 1.4 million people in the country's northeast.
Jessica Ilunga, a Ministry of Health communication officer, said Wednesday that Congo's government and the U.N. World Health Organization are taking immediate steps to contain the new Ebola case in the urban area.
Butembo is the largest city in Congo's North Kivu province and health experts worry that the contagious Ebola could spread rapidly among its dense population.
So far, health officials have identified 129 probable and confirmed cases. Eighty-nine people have died.
Four of the 13 new cases from the city of Beni were not previously identified as contacts, meaning officials don't know how they were exposed to Ebola.
At least 4,300 people had come into contact with someone infected with the Ebola virus, and more than half of those people remain under watch in case they develop symptoms.
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7th September 2018 23:09
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