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Ebola feared spreading in DR Congo
KINSHASA (AFP) — A suspected death from Ebola virus has been reported in a new province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where more than 170 people are now feared to have died from the disease in four months.
The new case was in East Kasai, a central province neighbouring the West Kasai where the latest outbreak was first reported.
There have been many deaths at a health centre in the East Kasai town of Mwene-Ditu in recent days and samples from one that showed Ebola-like symptoms are being studied in Kinshasa, said Benoit Kebelo, a doctor heading a government emergency response team.
Mwene-Ditu is around 180 kilometres (110 miles) southeast of Kananga, capital of West Kasai province, where five Ebola cases and one of Shigella were confirmed on September 11.
Kebolo told AFP everyone should remain cautious about the cause of the latest death. He added that “increasing awareness” of Ebola among the population was leading to many reported symptoms that in most cases are not linked to the outbreak.
Two more patients died from Ebola and related illnesses this week around Kampungu, around 250km northwest of Kananga, and the centre of the new epidemic, Kebolo said.
These bring to 172 the number of confirmed dead out of 381 reported cases of patients suffering symptoms from various illnesses including Ebola, Shigella, which is similar, acute malaria or gastro-enteritis, according to a new World Health Organisation toll.
There is no known cure for Ebola, which causes massive internal bleeding, and on average is fatal in around 80 percent of cases. Shigella, a type of infectious dysentery, is treatable with antiobiotics, but is still fatal in around 40 percent of cases.
Symptoms of the epidemic — high temperature, bloody diarrhoea, visible hemorrhaging — were first seen on April 27 in the Kampungu region of West Kasai.
Around Kampungu, a WHO survey of the cases, shows a marked increase in the number of ill between August 22 and 31, with an average of 15 cases per day and a peak of 12 deaths on August 27.
In early September the spread of the diseases slowed. Over the past six days it fell to between one and two new registered cases a day, with only a maximum two deaths per day.
“It’s encouraging, but we must still be prudent in analysing this reduction,” Kebelo warned.
There is no certainty that the epidemic has ended, he added. It could be a remission during the incubation period for Ebola (15-21 days) “before a new explosion”, he cautioned.
Meanwhile, a team of 10 WHO officials — including a virologist, three epidemiologists and Canadian specialists in setting up laboratories — have arrived in Kananga and will be operational next week analysing samples.
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