Orientale, Dem. Rep. Congo - Ebola Bundibugyo: 36 suspected deaths (25 confirmed/probable), 800+ contacts traced, 77 suspected cases (52 confirmed/probable) since March 2012

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12 cases 7 dead
DRC: Ebola kills 7 people in Eastern Province

August 17, 2012
The epidemic of Ebola virus was declared the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Minister of Public Health, Felix Kabange Numbi said that this Friday, August 17 twelve cases including seven deaths were recorded in Eastern Province. It invites the public to observe measures of individual and collective hygiene, indicating that to date there is no drug or vaccine to fight against this epidemic that has resurfaced in Uganda at the beginning of July.

Felix Kabange request all Congolese to avoid touching any animal found dead in the forest or eating meat.

"We must also avoid touching unprotected blood, vomit or urine of a patient who died or who suffers from a viral hemorrhagic fever," he adds.

The Minister assured that "soon these preventive measures will be applied, the faster the spread of disease will be stopped."..
[link to radiookapi.net]

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hat tip Crof


Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in DRC

17 AUGUST 2012 - On 17 August 2012, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Democratic Republic of Congo notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of an outbreak of Ebola Haemorrhagic fever in the Isiro and Dungu Health Zones of Province Orientale in Eastern DRC. A total of 10 suspected cases (9 in Isiro and 1 in Dungu) and 6 deaths (5 deaths in Isiro and 1 in Dungu) have been reported.

Laboratory investigations conducted at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe, Uganda, confirmed Ebola virus (Bundibugyo species). Three samples taken from two patients turned out positive for Ebola. A National Task Force convened by the Congolese Ministry of Health, is working with several partners including WHO, MSF and CDC. A joint MoH, WHO and MSF emergency response team are in the field to conduct a detailed epidemiological investigation and case management.

WHO is supporting the Ministry of Health in the areas of coordination, surveillance, epidemiology, laboratory, case management, logistics for outbreak, public information and social mobilization. An additional team of experts from Congo, DRC and IST/Gabon comprised of an epidemiologist, a logistician, an anthropologist and social mobilisation officers are being mobilized for possible deployment in the field. Control activities that are being carried include active case finding and contact tracing, enhanced surveillance, case management, public information and social mobilization and reinforcing infection control practices.

WHO does not recommend that any travel or trade restrictions be applied to Democratic Republic of Congo.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2012_08_18/en/index.html

[sharon sanders]

Re: Dem. Rep. Congo - 12 suspected cases (7 fatal) of hemorrhagic fever in Orientale province

twelve cases including seven deaths were recorded in Eastern Province.

Since this is a quote from the minister of public health I am going to change the thread to reflect this number.

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Re: Dem. Rep. Congo - 12 suspected cases (7 fatal) of hemorrhagic fever in Orientale province

Emergency Message for U.S. Citizens: Kinshasa (DRC), Suspected Cases of Ebola Virus in Orientale Province

Disease Outbreak
Africa > Congo, Democratic Republic of the > Kinshasa
8/17/2012

The U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa informs U.S. citizens that the provincial medical inspector of Orientale Province has announced that there are suspected cases of the Ebola Virus in the towns of Isiro and Dungu. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has laboratory confirmation of two cases. The Ebola Virus is one of the hemorrhagic fever illnesses. The virus is transmitted through contact with infected blood, bodily fluids, and handling or washing of infected corpses or through contact with objects that have been in contact with infected secretions. Avoid consumption of meat derived from primates. If you have any concerns, you should contact your healthcare provider.

For further information, please visit the following CDC websites and monitor www.cdc.gov for updates:
? Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Resources
? Guidance for U.S. Citizens Living Abroad
? Ebola Questions and Answers

You can stay in touch and get Embassy updates by checking the U.S. Embassy Kinshasa web site. You can also get global updates at the U.S. Department of State's, Bureau of Consular Affairs website where you can find the current Worldwide Caution, Travel Warning, Travel Alerts, and Country Specific Information. Follow us on Twitter and the Bureau of Consular Affairs page on Facebook as well or you can download our free Smart Traveler iPhone App for travel information at your fingertips. If you don't have internet access, current information on safety and security can also be obtained by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the United States, or for callers from other countries, a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444. These numbers are available from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. federal holidays).

If you are going to live in or travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, please take the time to tell us about your trip by enrolling in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP). If you enroll, we can keep you up to date with important safety and security announcements. It will also help your friends and family get in touch with you in an emergency. You should remember to keep all of your information in STEP up to date. It is important during enrollment or updating of information to include your current phone number and current email address where you can be reached in case of an emergency.

The U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa is located at 310 Avenue des Aviateurs, tel. +243-081-225-5872 (Do not dial the zero when calling from abroad). The Consular Section of the Embassy may be reached at tel. +243-081-884-6859 or +243-081-884-4609 and is open Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. and Fridays from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

https://www.osac.gov/Pages/ContentRe...est_17_08_2012

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Re: Dem. Rep. Congo - 12 suspected cases (7 fatal) of hemorrhagic fever in Orientale province - Ebola Bundibugyo confirmed

Very interesting. So the outbreak is confirmed as the Bundibugyo ebolavirus, making this only the second outbreak ever confirmed due to this strain.

The original outbreak was in Bundibugyo district of Uganda, in 2007:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42832

It would be interesting to know if there are any links between the cases in Isiro and Dungu. Having only 10-12 sporadic cases over nearly two months seems a bit odd.

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Re: Dem. Rep. Congo - 12 suspected cases (7 fatal) of hemorrhagic fever in Orientale province - Ebola Bundibugyo confirmed

Note the shorter time frame here:

http://wireupdate.com/ebola-outbreak-in-northeastern-dr-congo-kills-at-least-6.html

Ebola outbreak in northeastern DR Congo kills at least 6
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KINSHASA, DR CONGO (BNO NEWS) -- A serious outbreak of Ebola is believed to be responsible for at least six deaths in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, local and international health authorities said on Friday. It is unrelated to a deadly outbreak in neighboring Uganda last month.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was notified by the Congolese Ministry of Health of a suspected Ebola outbreak in the towns of Isiro and Dungu, both located in the province of Orientale which borders the Central African Republic and South Sudan to the north and Uganda to the east.

Three samples taken from two patients were taken to the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) in the Ugandan city of Entebbe where they tested positive for the Bundibugyo species of the deadly Ebola virus. Authorities in the region have so far reported 10 suspected cases, including six deaths, of which nine were in Isiro and one in Dungu.

Details about the suspected and confirmed Ebola cases were not immediately released, but the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the first case was reported on August 1, and additional cases have been reported since. But the country's poor health system and the remote but busy towns have worried some experts that the disease may spread.

The Congolese Ministry of Health (MoH) has convened a national task force to coordinate the response to the outbreak and is working with international health agencies. A joint MoH, WHO and Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) emergency response team is already in the area to conduct a detailed epidemiological investigation and case management.

An international team comprised of epidemiologists, logisticians, anthropologists and social mobilization officers is also being mobilized for possible deployment to the area. "Control activities that are being carried out include active case finding and contact tracing, enhanced surveillance, case management, public information and social mobilization and reinforcing infection control practices," a WHO spokesperson said.

The outbreak in DR Congo is unrelated to an outbreak in Uganda last month, where a different strain of Ebola killed sixteen people and infected up to eight others. Ugandan health authorities have said the outbreak there is under control, with no new confirmed cases since August 4.

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http://radiookapi.net/actualite/2012/08/17/rdc-le-virus-ebola-tue-7-personnes-en-province-orientale/

DRC: Ebola kills 7 people in Eastern Province
published 15 hours ago, 36 minutes | Last Update August 17, 2012 at 10:39 | in News, The One, National Health.
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The epidemic of Ebola virus was declared the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Minister of Public Health, Felix Kabange Numbi said that this Friday, August 17 twelve cases including seven deaths were recorded in Eastern Province. It invites the public to observe measures of individual and collective hygiene, indicating that to date there is no drug or vaccine to fight against this epidemic that has resurfaced in Uganda at the beginning of July.
Felix Kabange request all Congolese to avoid touching any animal found dead in the forest or eating meat.

"We must also avoid touching unprotected blood, vomit or urine of a patient who died or who suffers from a viral hemorrhagic fever," he adds.

The Minister assured that "soon these preventive measures will be applied, the faster the spread of disease will be stopped."

The last cases of Ebola have been identified in the DRC in 2007 in the region of Mweka and Luebo (Kasai Occidental), killing one hundred and sixty-eight people on four hundred patients registered in four months.

The Ebola virus causes severe bleeding, fatal in 50 to 90% of cases. The main symptom occurs after an incubation period of ten days on average, by a sudden onset of fever, accompanied by muscle aches, vomiting and diarrhea. If medical assistance is not fast enough, the patient died a few days to cardiorespiratory shock.

This virus was first identified in 1976 after the occurrence of major epidemics in Sudan and northern Democratic Republic of Congo. This is one of the rivers of this country who gave his name to that virus.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified over 20 epidemic outbreaks in West Africa since the outbreak of Ebola, seven of which have killed over 180 people.

At the beginning of July that the disease has resurfaced in Africa in Uganda. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ugandan authorities have identified 16 deaths during the month of July. President Museveni has also been broadcast on July 30 last audio message calling on his countrymen to be vigilant.

[Ronan Kelly]

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Machine translated from French;

Democratic Republic of the Congo (the) The DRC confirmed cases of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Isiro, Capital of Upper Uele (Eastern Province).
Postponement- World Health Organization
Note for Media No. 47

The Minister of Public Health of the DRC, Dr. Felix Kabange Numbi confirmed Friday, August 17, 2012 the occurrence of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Isiro, County town health district of Upper Uele, about 570 kilometers northeast of Kisangani, capital of Orientale Province.

To date, "a total of 11 probable or confirmed cases (10 to 1 in Dungu and Isiro) with 9 deaths (8 to 1 in Dungu and Isiro) have been reported," said the Minister of Health during a press conference in Kinshasa, adding that laboratory results provided by the Institute of Uganda Virus Research Entebbe (UVRI) have confi rmed two positive cases Ebola Bundibugyo strain Isiro, city of more than 200 thousand inhabitants.

Currently, 47 people contacts are under surveillance in the area of health Isiro which 44 are from the village of Zambasende and 3 of the Health Zone Dungu.

Meanwhile, emergency crews mixed the Ministry of Public Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), Center for Disease Control (CDC-Atlanta) and Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) are working closely on site for the response to this outbreak.

"I ask all people of the DRC to take action to address this epidemic, observing the strict measures of collective and individual hygiene and avoid eating meat from animals found dead in the forest, or even touch the corpse of a dead person of viral haemorrhagic fever, "said Dr. Kabange Numbi.

"This hemorrhagic fever, a highly contagious and kills between 25 and 90% of patients," noted for its part, the WHO Representative in the DRC, Dr. L?od?gal Bazira. He launched a "call to action for all partners to stop the epidemic as soon as possible".

For additional information, please contact:
Dr. L?od?gal Bazira, WHO Representative in the DRC
Email: baziral@cd.afro.who.int
M. Eugene Kabambi, Communication, Media & Advocacy, DPR / WHO DRC
Email: kabambie@cd.afro.who . int

http://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/la-rdc-confirme-des-cas-de-la-fi%C3%A8vre-h%C3%A9morragique-%C3%A0-virus-ebola-%C3%A0

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http://www.promedmail.org/

Published Date: 2012-08-18 18:31:42
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Ebola fever - Congo DR (03): (OE) Bundibugyo virus conf
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EBOLA FEVER - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (03): (ORIENTALE) BUNDIBUGYO VIRUS CONFIRMED
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Date: Fri Aug 2012
Source: World Health Organization, CSR, Disease Outbreak News [edited]

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2012_08_18/en/index.html

Ebolavirus outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo
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On 17 Aug 2012, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of an outbreak of Ebola fever in the Isiro and Dungu Health Zones of Province Orientale in Eastern DRC. A total of 10 suspected cases (9 in Isiro and 1 in Dungu) and 6 deaths (5 deaths in Isiro and 1 in Dungu) have been reported.

Laboratory investigations conducted at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe, Uganda, confirmed Ebola virus (Bundibugyo species). Three samples taken from two patients turned out positive for Ebola virus. A National Task Force convened by the Congolese Ministry of Health, is working with several partners including WHO, MSF, and CDC. A joint MoH, WHO, and MSF emergency response team are in the field to conduct a detailed epidemiological investigation and case management.

WHO is supporting the Ministry of Health in the areas of coordination, surveillance, epidemiology, laboratory, case management, logistics for outbreak, public information, and social mobilization. An additional team of experts from Congo, DRC, and IST/Gabon comprised of an epidemiologist, a logistician, an anthropologist, and social mobilisation officers are being mobilized for possible deployment in the field. Control activities that are being carried include active case finding and contact tracing, enhanced surveillance, case management, public information, and social mobilization and reinforcing infection control practices.

WHO does not recommend that any travel or trade restrictions be applied to Democratic Republic of Congo.

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[Laboratory investigations conducted at the Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda, have established the causative agent to be the ebolavirus species Bundibugyo virus (BDBV). Consequently the outbreaks presently occurring in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are likely to be independent events. The Ugandan outbreak is caused by the ebolavirus species Sudan virus and the DRC outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus (originally identified in an earlier outbreak occurring in Uganda). Further information is awaited.

[Laidback Al]

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General location maps of the 10 suspected cases of ebolavirus (Bundibugyo virus) outbreak in Orientale Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). (Information from post 24 above)

Isiro Health Zone (9 suspected cases, 6 deaths)

Dungu Health Zone (1 suspected case, 1 death)

The map below shows the location of Dungu and Rungu Territories (Isiro) within Haut Uele (sub region? of Orientale Province) in the DRC from reliefweb.



The map directly below shows the geographic relationship between the Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the DRC and the Outbreak of ebolavirus (Sudan) in Kibaale District, Uganda.

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Re: Dem. Rep. Congo - 12 suspected cases (7 fatal) of hemorrhagic fever in Orientale province - Ebola Bundibugyo confirmed

Machine translated from French (hat-tip Pathfinder). Actually, for the number of suspect cases (10-12), the number of contacts under monitoring (44) seems a bit low, perhaps as a result of the remoteness of the area. By comparison, the 24 probable cases in Kibaale resulted in over 400 individuals being placed under monitoring.

http://radiookapi.net/actualite/2012/08/18/isiro-le-comite-de-crise-des-epidemies-prend-des-mesures-contre-la-fievre-debola/

Isiro: the epidemic crisis committee takes action against Ebola
published 17 hours ago, 18 minutes | Last update August 18, 2012 at 7:14 |

Isiro met this Saturday, August 18, the Crisis Committee epidemics Isiro District in Eastern Province has taken measures to restrict the spread of Ebola hemorrhagic fever. Population should not shake hands or be in contact with a person suffering from this disease.
So far, Ebola has killed six people. These latest figures revealed by the Chief Medical Officer of Health District interim, Dr. Jacques Gumbaluka, revising down those Friday who reported 7 deaths.

Declared epidemic in DRC Friday, August 17, fever Ebola killed six of the ten suspected cases recorded. For now, some patients are in isolation and other supervision, as stated by the Chief Medical Officer ad interim health district:

"Currently, we have two patients in isolation and forty-four contact persons under surveillance. Among these suspects, there are eleven health professionals and thirty-three family members of suspects. "

While these patients are followed, the crisis committee epidemics Isiro District in Eastern Province has taken measures at the community level:

■ Do not shake hands;
■ Do not touch any animal found dead in the forest;
■ Do not handle the meat;
■ Do not touch unprotected vomit, blood, stool of a patient with Ebola or has been unsuccessful;
■ Do not sleep with the patient Ebola;
■ not remain unprotected near a sick Ebola;
■ Do not touch or handle contaminated clothing and other items;
■ Do not touch and / or wash corpses;
■ be injected under conditions of protection issued by standards in such circumstances.
On Friday, the Minister of Public Health, Felix Kabange Numbi, invited the public to observe hygiene measures individually and collectively. He recalled that so far, there is no vaccine or drug to fight against this epidemic. Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Uganda resurfaced in early July. Which has been identified in the area of health Isiro is of type "Mbudibugio" [Bundibugyo - alert].

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...58060f5fa5.451

Ebola outbreak in DR Congo
(AFP) ? 15 hours ago

KINSHASA ? Nine people have died in an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Health Minister Felix Kabangue said on Saturday.

The deaths were among 11 "probable or confirmed" cases detected in the town of Isiro in the north of the country, the minister was quoted as saying in a statement released by the World Health Organisation...

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Machine translated from French.

http://www.mediacongo.net/show.asp?doc=23303

Ebola: 11 probable or confirmed cases with 9 deaths in the DRC



Eleven probable or confirmed cases of viral hemorrhagic fever like Ebola, with 9 deaths were reported in the town of Isiro in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said Saturday the Minister of Health in this country, Dr. Felix Kabange Numbi.

According to the minister, said in a statement from the World Health Organization (WHO) laboratory tests carried out by the Institute Uganda Virus Research Entebbe (UVRI), confirmed the presence of strain Bundibugyo this disease in this city of 200,000 inhabitants.

Isiro, capital of Haut-Uele in Orientale Province, is located a few hundred kilometers from the Ugandan region affected by the disease in recent weeks.

Sixteen people were killed in Uganda since the beginning of the last Ebola outbreak in early July in western countries. The home was in western Uganda, about 200 kilometers from Kampala and about 50 kilometers from the border with the DRC.

A Ugandan official had said earlier this week told AFP that the epidemic was under control.

In the DRC, emergency crews mixed the Ministry of Public Health, the WHO, the Centre for Disease Control (CDC-Atlanta) and M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) are working closely together on site, said the WHO.

According to the WHO press release, the Minister asked the entire population of the DRC to mobilize to deal with this epidemic, observing strict hygiene measures collectively and individually, and not eating meat of animals found dead in the forest, or to touch the corpse of a dead person of viral hemorrhagic fever.


Kinshasa, 08/18/2012 (AFP / MCN, via mediacongo.net)

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Re: Dem. Rep. Congo - 11 probable/confirmed cases (9 fatal) of hemorrhagic fever in Orientale province - Ebola Bundibugyo confirmed

This Xinhua article gives different numbers.

Machine translation of French News Cn:

"Aug. 18 (Xinhua) - At least 14 cases of Ebola virus, including seven deaths, have been recorded in the Eastern Province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), confirmed Saturday F?lix Kabange Numbi, Minister Congolese Health.

..."In a few days we will find preventive measures and the spread of this epidemic will stop," said he reassured.

The non-governmental organization (NGO) M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) has not confirmed this information by, yet it has sent samples for review by the National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) to Kinshasa. "

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Re: Dem. Rep. Congo - 11 probable/confirmed cases (9 fatal) of hemorrhagic fever in Orientale province - Ebola Bundibugyo confirmed

86 cases of contact (virus) have been identified and that we should follow. It has not yet seen them all. In deaths, it is 9. And suspected cases, there is still work that is underway by the field teams to make a definitive list http://translate.google.com/translat...-%26ns_fee%3D0