Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. The central African country has reported 3,195 cases of coronavirus and 72 deaths. "Four additional people who contracted the virus -- all contacts of the deceased and including the child of one of the fatal cases -- are being treated in an isolation unit at the Wangata Hospital in Mbandaka," "The deaths occurred between the 18th and 30th of May but they were only confirmed as Ebola-related yesterday. Es ist global und historisch der zweitschwerste dokumentierte Ausbruch der Erkrankung überhaupt. ... 2020… There is currently no cure for ebola, but there are two trial vaccines in progress. Ebola is a highly infectious virus that can kill up to 90 percent of the people who catch it, bringing terror to countries and communities.Ebola’s rate of infection is so high that patients need to be treated in isolation by wearing protective clothing.According to Doctors Without Borders, medical teams can help manage the symptoms of the virus by keeping patients hydrated, and by using pain-relief medication to help with fever and blood pressure.A patient who recovers from Ebola immediately becomes immune to the strain of the virus they have contracted.An Ebola outbreak is considered over once 42 days have passed with no new confirmed cases of infection.There is currently no cure for ebola, but there are two trial vaccines in progress.The Merck vaccine offers an estimated 97.5 percent effective protection for 97.5 percent of its participants 10 days after being vaccinated.Doctors without Borders writes: ‘This vaccine is already in use in the DRC, but due to limited availability and the fact that it is still being trialled, it’s currently only offered to the people most at risk.“That means frontline health workers and people who have been in contact with someone who has (or probably has) Ebola.”A second experimental vaccine, produced by Johnson & Johnson, has been given the go-ahead in the DRC as part of an extended clinical trial.One drug which was used to treat ebola was Remdesivir, which is now being introduced in response to the coronavirus pandemic.Remdesivir, manufactured by American pharmaceutical firm Gilead, helped control the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa before being discontinued due to ineffectively.Early on, the symptoms of Ebola are non-specific, which makes it very difficult to diagnose.DWB writes: “The disease is often characterised by the sudden onset of fever, feeling weak, muscle pain, headaches and a sore throat.“This is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rashes, impaired kidney and liver function and, in some cases, internal and external bleeding.“Symptoms can appear from two to 21 days after exposure.
An outbreak in May 2018 resulted in at least 54 cases and 33 deaths in the area. Die Ebolafieber-Epidemie seit 2018 ist ein seit dem Jahr 2018 grassierender Ausbruch des Ebolafiebers in den Provinzen Nord-Kivu, Ituri und seit August 2019 in Sud-Kivu im Osten der zentralafrikanischen Demokratischen Republik Kongo. An Ebola outbreak is considered over once 42 days have passed with no new confirmed cases of infection. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Some patients may go on to experience rashes, red eyes, hiccups, chest pains, difficulty breathing and swallowing.”DWB’s emergency coordinator Henry Gray, said during the 2012 outbreak in Uganda: “Health workers are particularly susceptible to catching it so, along with treating patients, one of our main priorities is training health staff to reduce the risk of them catching the disease whilst caring for patients.“We have to put in place extremely rigorous safety procedures to ensure that no health workers are exposed to the virus – through contaminated material from patients or medical waste infected with ebola.”Ebola can be caught from both humans and animals, and is transmitted through close contact with blood, secretions or other bodily fluids.Healthcare workers have frequently been infected while treating Ebola patients.In certain areas of Africa, infection has been documented through the handling of infected chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelopes and porcupines found dead or ill in the rainforest. Ebola cases rise in new DR Congo outbreak. This is not the first time that Ebola has hit Mbandaka, an equatorial port city on the Congo River. In the largest Ebola outbreak in West Africa, there were 28,616 cases of Ebola virus disease and 11,310 deaths, for a death rate of 39.5% (low compared to historic death rates for Ebola Zaire). New Ebola Case in Congo, Days Before Outbreak's Expected End The World Health Organization says a new case of the Ebola virus has been confirmed in … Mehrere tausend Erkrankungs- und über tausend Todesfälle sind erfasst. By far the worst epidemic affecting the DRC is measles, which has infected nearly 370,000 people and killed 6,779 since 2019.The Ebola virus lives in bats, and WHO says new outbreaks can be expected in the Democratic Republic of Congo.By far the largest epidemic of Ebola was in 2014-2016 in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The World Health Organization raised the alarm Thursday about a growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and warned of … See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, In the past 21 days (8 to 28 January 2020), 28 confirmed cases were reported from five health areas within three active health zones in North Kivu Province (Figure 1, Figure 2, Table 1): Beni (n=18), Mabalako (n=9), and Musienene (n=1). newspaper archive.The World Health Organisation’s director-general Tedros Adhanom said six cases had been identified by the Congo’s health ministry in the province’s capital, Mbandaka.