Health Alerts

The WHO regional office announced this week that seven Ebola virus disease cases have now emerged in Beni since early last month – ‘four of whom have died, two in the community and two in treatment centres’. Contact tracing and vaccination campaigns continue as in the latest sitrep, the WHO noted that all recent cases were linked with a common source, perhaps ‘by direct contact with body fluids of a survivor (asymptomatic or relapse case)’.  Read more