Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2014
| country | Cases of illness |
Deaths | |
|---|---|---|---|
 Democratic Republic of Congo
|
66 | 49 | |
| Confirmed, Probable, and Suspected Cases | |||
The Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo began in August 2014 and was declared over in November 2014.
course
On August 24, 2014, two Ebola virus deaths were reported in the Equateur Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The WHO reported that this outbreak in Central Africa was independent of the cases in West Africa. She reported on a pregnant woman from the village of Ikanamongo near Boende as an index case. She had slaughtered a wild animal ( bushmeat ), fell ill with Ebola shortly afterwards and died on August 11, 2014. By August 18, 24 suspected cases with 13 deaths had been identified in the DR Congo. The illnesses could be traced back to person-to-person transmissions, based on the index case or from contact persons in the hospital or at the funeral. 160 people were identified as contact persons; for 80 of them, a trip to a West African country affected by the Ebola epidemic or contact with people from these countries could be ruled out.
After a genome analysis of the virus isolates in the Center International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville ( Gabon ), the WHO was able to prove that they belonged to the Zaire Ebola virus isolates obtained in Kikwit in 1995 , making an epidemiological connection with the epidemic that was rampant in West Africa unlikely .
Up to October 26, 2014, 66 cases of the disease had been registered in the DR Congo, 38 of which were laboratory-confirmed, and 28 cases were considered to be probably infected with Ebola. Among those infected were eight people who were working as medical aides, they all died from the disease. A total of 49 sick people died. On November 20, 2014, the World Health Organization announced the end of the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here, too, twice the maximum incubation time (i.e. 42 days) had passed without a new infection being registered.
Web links
- Framework Concept Ebola Fever. Preparations for measures in Germany. Guidelines for health authorities and healthcare professionals, RKI, December 1, 2014
- WHO information page on epidemic warnings
- Information from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
- Website of the Bernhard Nocht Institute as the responsible national reference center for tropical infectious agents
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b WHO: Ebola Response Roadmap Situation Report. (PDF, 1.6 MB) World Health Organization (WHO): Situation reports: Ebola response roadmap , November 19, 2014, accessed on November 20, 2014 (English).
- ↑ a b c WHO declares end of Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. World Health Organization (WHO), November 21, 2014, accessed November 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Nigeria is now free of Ebola virus transmission. World Health Organization (WHO), October 20, 2014, accessed October 20, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Ebola virus disease - Democratic Republic of Congo. World Health Organization (WHO), August 27, 2014, accessed on August 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Virological analysis: no link between Ebola outbreaks in West Africa and Democratic Republic of Congo. World Health Organization (WHO), September 2, 2014, accessed September 4, 2014 .
- ^ WHO: Ebola Response Roadmap Situation Report. (PDF, 1.11 MB) World Health Organization (WHO): Situation reports: Ebola response roadmap , October 29, 2014, accessed on October 29, 2014 .