Congo monitors nearly 200 boat passengers after a traveler dies with Ebola-like symptoms
Authorities deployed a mobile laboratory to test about 200 passengers and crew after a suspected Ebola death raised concerns about spread to the capital.
- On Thursday, Congolese authorities intercepted a boat carrying 200 people in Maluku, 65 km from Kinshasa, after a passenger who disembarked earlier died on July 25 with symptoms consistent with Ebola.
- The 32-year-old man died in Mongala province after developing symptoms, but local health facilities failed to collect biological samples due to lack of testing kits, according to a provincial report obtained by Reuters.
- Health Minister Samuel Roger Kamba deployed a mobile laboratory to test all passengers and crew aboard the vessel. Officials reported no other deaths among the 200 travelers currently detained in Maluku.
- Government data released Wednesday shows the outbreak has infected 3,973 people and killed 1,801. Tshopo province is one of five affected, raising concerns about potential spread toward Kinshasa's population of more than 17 million.
- River journeys from Kisangani to Kinshasa can take weeks with limited communications, complicating efforts to identify and monitor potential secondary exposures among passengers from the intercepted vessel.
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"It is necessary to intensify the response against Ebola" according to the boss of the World Health Organization. He has been visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo since Wednesday. Since 15 May, more than 3,900 cases have been recorded in the country, including 1,801 deaths. On Thursday, a suspicious case was reported on a boat towards Kinshasa. The man died with symptoms corresponding to those of Ebola virus.
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Congo monitors 200 boat passengers near Kinshasa after a traveler dies with Ebola-like symptoms
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DR Congo tests over 300 passengers after suspected Ebola death on boat
Congolese health authorities were screening more than 300 people travelling on a river boat intercepted near Kinshasa on Thursday after the death of a passenger suspected of having Ebola raised concerns the virus may have spread on board, officials said. Authorities deployed a mobile laboratory to the vessel after it was stopped in Maluku, around 65km (40 miles) upstream from the capital on Wednesday. The secretary general of the Democratic R…
Ebola scare near Kinshasa as 200 boat passengers are quarantined
Congolese authorities quarantined and tested nearly 200 boat passengers after a traveller died with Ebola-like symptoms near Kinshasa. The episode has heightened fears in the capital as the outbreak spreads rapidly and frontline care in Ituri is disrupted.
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