Ebola hits DR Congo again

Agnes Tumuheire — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 09:51:35 +0000

The democratic republic of Congo has been hit by yet another Ebola outbreak just days after the termination of the previous one. Reports from the country indicated Ebola tracks in its conflict-torn east province of North Kivu.

20 people have been reported dead from the epidemic in the Beni region of North Kivu -which homes the Ugandan-linked Islamist militia called the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

According to the Health Minister, Oly Ilunga Kalenga‘s statement,they received “26 cases of fever with haemorrhagic indications, of which 20 were fatal,” Kalenga added that Six samples taken from hospitalized patients arrived in Kinshasa on Tuesday for analysis by the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB).

Four of the six samples tested positive for Ebola virus disease.

“At this point, there is no indication that these two epidemics, which are more than 2,500 kilometres (1,500 miles) apart, are connected,” he said.(Daily monitor, August 2, 2018)

DRC had been declared free from the 10-week Ebola on July 24 that had eaten-up the northwestern of the country, claiming 33 lives and More than 50 people were infected.

This outbreak marks the 10th in the DRC since 1976 and the area affected is on a lake that neighbors Uganda and Rwanda, which raises the possibility of international spread.

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Suspected hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Nakaseke district

Isaac Senabulya — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:03:23 +0000

The Member of Parliament for Nakaseke south MP Paulson Kasana Lutamaguzi Semakula has demanded government to declare Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Nakaseke as an epidemic to seek the world health organization intervention. Lutamaguzi told parliament that this deadly disease has claimed lives people in Nakaseke and surrounding districts like Kiboga .He said that according to the World Health Organization guidelines where this disease is detected its declared an epidemic zone but government is adamant.

Nakaseke Area Mp Paulson Luttamaguzi

Reports show that the patients of this disease are in Nakaseke hospital where government established an isolation unit. Lutamaguzi said that the people in the area are worried that the disease was taken to the area through nets which were distributed to them by government. He asked government to intervene into this matter and sensitize the public on how to protect themselves from this disease.

The government chief whip Ruth Nakabirwa Sentamu said that will inform the Ministry of Health about the out break so as mass sensitization carried out .

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Ebola hits DR Congo again

Suspected hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Nakaseke district