The Democratic Republic of Congo has come forward to declare that an Ebola outbreak has hit the southern Kasai province area after a 34-year-old pregnant woman was confirmed to be a case.
As of Thursday, the country has 28 suspicious cases and 15 fatalities, according to the Health Minister, Roger Kamba. These figures, however, are only indicative at this stage of the ongoing inquiries.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the outbreak has moved to the Bulape and Mweka regions of Kasai province where the patients are experiencing symptoms like high temperature, vomiting, diarrhea, and bleeding.
Certainly, WHO has dispatched experts to support Congo’s team and will be carrying two tonnes of medical and laboratory consumables to the Central African country.
The director of the regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO), Mohamed Janabi, stated that the institution is putting efforts to bring about improvements in the treatment of patients, infection prevention, and disease surveillance in health care facilities. Ebola virus DR Congo has dealt with 16 times, the last outbreak in the Equateur province in April 2022.
In the first place, the Ebolavirus was first identified in 1976 and has been the major cause of several tragic epidemics in African countries, resulting in the death of over 15,000 people.
The virus, which is a natural host of bats, usually has a very high lethality rate of up to 90 percent in certain outbreaks. The outbreak in Congo has been controlled after about six weeks.
