Health Alerts

Cautious optimism for the NE’s Ebola virus outbreak was signalled in the Feb 16 WHO regional bulletin after a single case and no new deaths were reported over the past week. More details in the CMRE newsletter dated 17 Feb and this week’s WHO Ebola SitRep. Also in news from the WHO last week, Ervebo, the Ebola vaccine, is now licensed in Burundi, Zambia and Ghana, as well as the DRC.

CHOLERA continues to impact as many as 14 provinces with areas surrounding Lakes Kivu and Tanganyika in the east bearing the brunt - North Kivu, South Kivu, Haut-Katanga and Tanganyika have been the hotspots this year. From the same source, the Feb 16 regional WHO bulletin, new suspected monkeypox cases escalated from the second week of 2020 - almost three-quarters of the 222 cases recorded to the end of January were from the provinces of Sankuru, Bas-Uele, Equateur and Mai-Ndombe. Read more.