After analyzing a blood sample from a woman who died in early February, health authorities announced on Sunday the return of the Ebola virus to the east of the country. The World Health Organization (WHO) has dispatched a team of epidemiologists to the site, we read on France 24.
Already confronted with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo must now face the return of the Ebola virus. The authorities announced, on Sunday February 7, the “resurgence” of the virus in the east of the country, after the death of a woman from this disease, three months after the declaration of the end of a previous epidemic.
There is a “resurgence of the Ebola virus in eastern DRC,” Congolese Minister of Health Eteni Longondo told state television RTNC.
He specified that this “other episode of Ebola virus disease” had been located in the Biena health zone in North Kivu (East).
“This is a farmer, wife of a survivor of the Ebola virus disease, having presented on February 1, the typical signs of this disease”, very contagious, added the minister. Died on February 3, the analysis of the sample of her blood taken before her death resulted in a positive result for the Ebola virus, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
Already confronted with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo must now face the return of the Ebola virus. The authorities announced, on Sunday February 7, the “resurgence” of the virus in the east of the country, after the death of a woman from this disease, three months after the declaration of the end of a previous epidemic.
There is a “resurgence of the Ebola virus in eastern DRC,” Congolese Minister of Health Eteni Longondo told state television RTNC.
He specified that this “other episode of Ebola virus disease” had been located in the Biena health zone in North Kivu (East).
“This is a farmer, wife of a survivor of the Ebola virus disease, having presented on February 1, the typical signs of this disease”, very contagious, added the minister. Died on February 3, the analysis of the sample of her blood taken before her death resulted in a positive result for the Ebola virus, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
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