Three people in Congo have died from an Ebola-like haemorrhagic fever. These cases are up in northern Congo's Equateur Province.
Is it Ebola? The Center for Disease Control has not officially said it is another Ebola outbreak.
Congolese health authorities are doing a good job. Health authorities recorded the first death on May 29. That's quick action. During the last outbreak in 2007, the first death occurred in June but the outbreak was not recognized until late August. Dozens of people were died by the time health authorities were mobilized.
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Is it Ebola? The Center for Disease Control has not officially said it is another Ebola outbreak.
Congolese health authorities are doing a good job. Health authorities recorded the first death on May 29. That's quick action. During the last outbreak in 2007, the first death occurred in June but the outbreak was not recognized until late August. Dozens of people were died by the time health authorities were mobilized.
IRIN Africa | Great Lakes | DRC | DRC: Suspected haemorrhagic fever kills three in Equateur Province | Health & Nutrition | News Item.
KINSHASA, 13 June 2008 (IRIN) - Three people in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Equateur Province have died from what is suspected to be haemorrhagic fever, according to medical sources.
Samples collected in Boende, 300km east of Bandaka, have been sent to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta in the USA, to determine whether or not the disease is viral.
According to its spokesman, Eugene Kabambi, the UN's World Health Organization has sent a team of experts to Boende together with government doctors.
"The third death, that of a child, was reported on Wednesday" 11 June, said Jacques Mokange, the province's medical inspector.
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