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The cases occurred near the town of Mangina, about 30 kilometers west of the city of Beni, according to senior official Donat Kibwana on Monday. The symptoms observed included fever, diarrhea, vomiting and nosebleeds.
Blood samples are now in the laboratory
Blood samples have been sent to a regional laboratory for review, Kibwana explained. The Ministry of Health of North Kivu Province reported that a team of local and international specialists was going to Mangina.
Last week, Congo and the World Health Organization announced the official end of the recent Ebola outbreak. The eruption was located in the Equatorial Province near the town of Mbandaka – about 1500 kilometers west of Beni. The Ebola virus is one of the most dangerous pathogens in the world. More than 11,000 people died in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone during a devastating epidemic in 2014 and 2015.
Ebola Study rVSVDG-ZEBOV-GP
The official end of the latest outbreak of Ebola in Congo shows that the relief organization Doctors Without Borders is relieved. "With a massive and consistent response, the disease could be contained," said Berlin-based MSF expert on tropical medicine and Ebola, Maximilian Gertler. In addition to the isolation and treatment of patients, the burial of the dead and the identification of all contacts, it is above all the educational work that has been crucial.
For MSF, the evaluation of a vaccine study is now in the forefront. In collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Congolese Ministry of Health, the relief organization conducted a voluntary study with the Ebola vaccine rVSVDG-ZEBOV-GP. In total, about 3,200 people participated, including medical staff or Ebola contact persons.
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