Health Alerts

With the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) set to continue for a further three months, two disturbing trends were noted by the WHO in its latest update ‘a decline in the proportion of confirmed cases listed as contacts (from 57% to 13%) and an increase in the proportion of cases dying outside of Ebola treatment centers (from 14% to 27%) this past week’. The new cases reported on Oct 22 by the DRC’s response committee (CMRE): one each from Kalunguta, Mabalako, Mambasa, and Mandima health zones. Read this week’s External Situation Report here. Read more.