Posted on 05/27/2018 8:07:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Another person has died in Congo of a confirmed case of Ebola, bringing the number of fatalities from the latest outbreak to 12, the country’s health ministry said Sunday.
The death happened in Iboko, a rural area in northwestern Equateur province, the health ministry said in a statement. There are also four new suspected cases in the province, the statement reported.
Congo now has 35 confirmed Ebola cases.
Health workers have identified people who have been in contact with the patients in the confirmed Ebola cases in three areas in Equateur province, Iboko, rural Bikoro and Mbandaka, the provincial capital of 1.2 million that is a transport hub on the Congo River.
Congolese Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga flew by helicopter to Bikoro and Iboko on Saturday to see the deployment of health workers who will be tracing people who have been in contact with Ebola cases and inoculating them with a new experimental vaccine. The vaccination campaign in the two rural areas is set to begin Monday. …
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It’s happening again! Ebola! Infected townsfolk are escaping quarantine facilities and wandering off, mixing with the uninfected. If we had a United Nations team that really cared, this is something I would hope they could get involved with and take control of. The Red Cross may be too politicized and without enough people. Some of the infected consider Ebola as the sign of a ‘curse’. So we are working with people not always receptive to modern day medical treatment.
Ooooh! I am so escared!!!!
How many Americans died in hospitals from preventable infections this week? More than died in care wrecks. But, pay no attention & be terrified of scary sounding viruses from the other side of the world!
Remember back in October 2014 when they weren’t so far away? Seems like eons ago.
The UN is a communistic organization. Not possible for anything they form to “really care”. They’re more politicized than the RC.
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