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Search in DRC for More Possible Ebola Victims
"We are looking for all people who may have been in contact with the sick who are presenting symptoms of Ebola or of shigellosis," Secretary General Benoit Kebelo, a senior health ministry official, told AFP.
The authorities want to stop an epidemic of Ebola, an incurable haemorrhagic fever that kills between 50 and 90 percent of those infected, depending on the strain and the speed of intervention to treat symptoms.
"We're looking for around 100 people, especially in the Kampungu zone," said Kebelo, referring to the epicentre of the epidemic, some 300 kilometres (185 miles) from the provincial capital of Kananga.
Officials fear that highly contagious Ebola, for which there is no known cure, may have claimed most of 169 lives out of 376 cases since April. However, some may be due to the simultaneous appearance of the Shigella strand of infectious dysentery, which is treatable by antibiotics.
Kebelo said that since the outbreaks were first detected at the end of April, five cases of Ebola and one of Shigella had been formally confirmed by international laboratories.
But for the broader picture, "you must approach these numbers with caution," warned Kebelo, who heads a joint ministerial task force coordinating with the UN World Health Organisation (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control, and a team from Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
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