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A newborn baby and its mother have been infected by the Ebola virus disease in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where the tenth epidemic has already made a total of 186 deaths, Congolese health authorities said on Monday. .
Specialized Center
"The two new confirmed cases of Mabalako (Beni territory) are a young girl residing in Beni and her two-week-old newborn," reads in the daily bulletin of the Congolese Ministry of Health dated Sunday.
The baby and his mother are admitted for treatment in a specialized center in the region of Beni set up by the authorities to stop the progression of the disease and administer care, reads again in the bulletin which also indicates "81 cases of healed patients ".
26,155 people vaccinated
"In total, 298 cases of haemorrhagic fever have been reported in the region, including 263 confirmed and 35 probable", since the declaration of this tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC, which affects the provinces of North Kivu (east) and Ituri (northeast).
"Since the start of vaccination on August 8, 2018, 26,135 people have been vaccinated, including 13,825 in Beni," said the response team in its bulletin.
In mid-October, the Congolese authorities reported that they were facing a "second wave" of the Ebola epidemic of undetermined "scale" in Beni, North Kivu (east).
The first Ebola outbreak was reported in Yambuku in northeastern DRC in 1976, with a total of 318 reported cases and 224 deaths.
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