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DR Congo Reports of Slight Fall in Suspected Ebola Cases

by Venkatraman on September 18, 2007 at 5:50 PM Tropical Disease News

The number of suspected cases of Ebola in a remote area of central Democratic Republic of Congo has fallen slightly in recent days, health authorities said on Monday.

DR Congo Reports of Slight Fall in Suspected Ebola Cases

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"In the past week we have seen a slight dip in suspect cases. On average we have one new case every day and a death every two or three days," said Dr. Fortunat Mtumba, health minister for the affected Western Kasai region.

Those being admitted either have Ebola, an incurable disease characterised by massive internal bleeding, or the Shigella strand of infectious dysentery which is treatable by antibiotics, he said.

In the past four months there have been 170 fatalities from 378 cases of either Ebola or shigellosis, Mtumba said. A previous tally from September 14 put the number of fatalities at 169 from 376 patients.

Ebola kills 50 to 90 percent of those it infects. For shigellosis the mortality rate is around 40 percent. The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed the two outbreaks on September 11.

Ebola victims suffer high fever, severe dehydration and bleed under the skin and in severe cases from the mouth, ears and eyes. The virus is highly infectious for those who come into contact with a victim's body fluids.

Ebola has killed some 450 people in the DRC since 1976, and 1,200 people across Africa in the same period. It last swept DR Congo in 1995, then known as Zaire, claiming 245 lives out of the 315 registered cases.

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