Health Alerts

Concern has been raised over Ituri province’s plague outbreak which has now spread across five health zones, infected 64 people and killed 14 – last year only one health zone was involved and recorded 10 cases and five deaths. The WHO has determined the risk of spread on a national level to be moderate. Read More

NINE more Ebola cases and the same number of deaths have been reported over the past week in Equateur province as health agencies contend with public resistance to their efforts and the presence of confirmed cases in the community. Read more. A long term follow-up study has described the severe immune dysfunction suffered by Ebola survivors and ‘identifies a set of biological and genetic markers that could be used to define a signature of “chronic Ebola virus disease (CEVD)’.

FOUR provinces (Sankuru, Maindombe, North Kivu and North Ubangi) have recorded most of the measles cases logged in June with Sankuru reporting over five times more than the next highest (Maindombe). Read more