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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – A new case of Ebola virus disease was confirmed in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on April 10, 2020. This news came when the World Health Organization or WHO prepared a statement to end the outbreak of the illness.
“This is not a desirable development, but we must anticipate it,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as quoted by the news on the official WHO bikini page on Monday, April 13, 2020.
Tedros made sure to keep the response team in Beni and other high-risk areas. “We do it to anticipate something like this happening,” he said.
Tedros also explained that thousands of signs in the Congo are still being investigated every day. It is said to be part of the Ebola surveillance system that is still active in the region. Signs include people or people who have symptoms of Ebola virus disease or death events in areas that are at high risk for Ebola.
For positive confirmed cases, efforts have been made to trace all who have been contacted. The provision of vaccines and monitoring of your health is also called Tedros.
WHO Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti added that WHO had worked hand in hand with medical officers in the Congo for more than 18 months. Including, he added, the WHO team now provides support for investigations into the latest cases.
“Although the COVID-19 pandemic adds to the burden, we will continue this collaboration until we can finally declare the end of the Ebola outbreak together,” Moeti said.
The last positive case occurred a few minutes after the conclusion of the meeting of the Emergency Committee of the International Health Regulations on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Emergency Committee said it would meet again next week to reevaluate the recommendations that had been prepared based on the most recent case.
Healthcare workers sit near the disinfectant fluids used to clean the rooms of Ebola virus patients at Bwana Suri Hospital, Ituri, Congo, December 10, 2018. REUTERS / Goran Tomasevic
Previously, a statement was being prepared to declare the end of the Ebola virus outbreak. The statement was considered after the last Ebola positive person in Congo had tested negative twice and was released from the hospital on March 3.
As of April 10, 2020, up to 3,456 people were confirmed and suspected of being infected with the virus, and 2,276 of them died.
The first appearance of the Ebola virus was found in consecutive outbreaks in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976. Ebola was transmitted by contact with blood or other body fluids, or from the injured tissue of infected victims, humans and animals.
Several strains of this virus have various lethal properties. One of them, Ebola Reston, for example, does not make the infected person sick. But not if you are infected with Ebola bundibugyo. The death rate from that virus can be as high as 71 percent as it occurred in the outbreak in Sudan.
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