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The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, reported today (7) that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been largely contained and the risk of spread By his profile on the social network Twitter, he thanked the country's government, the local health ministry and partners for what he called "unremitting work" . "We remain vigilant and hope that the epidemic will come to an end soon," Tedros concluded.
The WHO said that the work of identifying people who had contact with suspected or confirmed cases of the disease in the country was concluded on June 27, when the last group that had been exposed to the virus has completed 21 days of surveillance without symptoms
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Still according to the organization, on June 12, the last patient with Ebola in the province of Ecuador was released after being subjected to two blood tests that had negative results for the disease.
Before the outbreak is declared WHO has to wait a total of 42 days (twice the incubation period of the virus) after the registration of the last exposed person to a infected patient, no new cases
From April 1 to July 3, 53 cases of Ebola were confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including 29 deaths. The total includes 38 laboratory-confirmed cases and 15 probable cases (patients considered to be suspected of the disease but deceased before the blood test). Five cases involved health professionals, four of whom were confirmed and two died. With the information of Agência Brasil.
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