HEALTH COACH - WHO confirms second case of Ebola in Congo outbreak | Reuters

HEALTH COACH -

 WHO confirms second case of Ebola in Congo outbreak
| Reuters   
 




   KINSHASA  The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed Sunday a second case of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo following an outbreak this week 17 other suspect cases. 
   
 Health officials are attempting to identify 125 people related to identified cases in the remote northeastern province of Bas-Uele province in northeastern Congo, near the border with the Central African Republic, Congolese spokesman Eugene Kabambi said. 
  
 Three people have died so far among the 19 suspected and confirmed cases, he added. 

 
 It was not immediately clear how the first victim, a deceased man, caught the virus, although previous epidemics were linked to contact with infected bushmeat like monkeys. 

 
 The epidemic just a year after the end of an epidemic in West Africa killed more than 11,300 people mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. 
  
 However, the Congo, whose density forests contain the Ebola River near where the disease was first detected in 1976, experienced numerous epidemics and Especially managed to contain them without loss of life on a large scale. 

 
 Global immunization alliance GAVI said Friday that some 300,000 doses of an Ebola vaccine developed by Merck ( MRK.N ) could Be available in the event of a large-scale outbreak and was ready to support the Government of the Congo on the issue. Aaron Ross's statement, written by Emma Farge, Louise Ireland edition and Gareth Jones