Ebola response tightensi n eastern Congo

That's a good article.
More than doubled since January. Must be a sliver of truth to the saying, "A watched pot never boils".

There's going to be a mini-series on the television here called
"The Hot Zone"
Maybe it's coincidence, or maybe it's not..but it makes me feel like someone out there in the 'realm of shaping thoughts' has been watching.
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DRC is failing to gain the international attention it needs right now because all the images coming from country are 'clean'. We see no vomit , feces, or blood, only the centres, the workers, and the healed.
Coffins don't count.

A front-liner vaccinated 10 days ago is infected now..

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/05/drc-ebola-cases-top-1800-amid-burial-team-attacks
"Blowing past the 1,800 case mark, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported 39 cases over the weekend as well as a pair of assaults on burial teams, along with 10 new infections today, according to the latest official reports, raising the outbreak's total to 1,826."

Interesting. I would imagine military personnel would get vaccine?

https://actualite.cd/category/ebola

Another health care worker died.

Snppet from the first link there:

"In Central and South America, health monitoring of migratory flows has been initiated to detect cases of Zika, Dengue, Chikungunya, Malaria, measles, Ebola, among other contagious diseases. "

Are they doing a temp and 'how you doing' detection or holding them for 21 days,..or what?

Resettlement Data Finder
https://rsq.unhcr.org/en/#qZF3

Kivu Security Tracker (map)
https://kivusecurity.org/map

(Is not news, simply data,... going to drop links here for later referral, hope you don't mind)

Three suspected Ebola victims have escaped from the isolation centre at Kihihi Health Centre IV in Kihihi town council in Kanungu District in western Uganda.  https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Three-suspected-Ebola-victims-escape-Kanungu-isolation-centre/688334-5155380-6atmb0/index.html

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/06/19/7391560921462/?sl=1
June 19 (UPI) -- Uganda's health minister announced that officials have been cleared to use three new experimental Ebola treatments, a week after the disease entered the country from the Democratic Republic of Congo....

...Authorization of the new treatments came as Uganda's Ministry of Health said it has two new suspected cases of the disease.

The ministry said in a press release that the patients were in isolation at the Bwera Ebola Treatment Unit and that blood samples had been drawn and sent to the Uganda Virus Research Institute for testing.

Uganda has vaccinated 128 people who have come into contact with the three confirmed cases and is currently trying to locate the remaining three of 92 people who came into contact with the two patients in isolation.

more at link

Russia designs new Ebola vaccine - Rospotrebnadzor
Interfax

This is from July1.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/07/ebola-outbreak-reaches-2338-cases-among-violence-ituri
Vaccines reviewed by health ministry
Late last week, Oly Ilunga Kalenga, MD, the minister of health in the DRC, held a meeting in Kinshasa to review experimental Ebola vaccine candidates.
Since Aug 8, 2018 — 8 days after the outbreak began — only Merck's rVSV-ZEBOV has been deployed in a ring vaccination strategy (....)
During the meeting, Kalenga and other officials considered experimental vaccines from Merck, Johnson & Johnson, CanSino Biologics Inc, and Rospotrebnadzor. Leaders and researchers from the pharmaceutical companies, as well as international experts from the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and the World Bank, among others, also attended the meeting.

"Recognizing that Ebola is an emerging disease and in order to help advance science, the Ministry of Health is open to the option of starting new clinical trials with one or more of these on the sidelines of the current epidemic," the ministry said. DRC officials, however, did not opt to approve any other vaccine for use in the outbreak at this point.
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Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 2,418, of which 2,324 are confirmed and 94 are probable.
In total, there were 1,630 deaths (1,536 confirmed and 94 probable) and 671 people healed.
286 suspected cases under investigation;
10 new confirmed cases, including 5 in Beni, 2 in Mandima, 1 in Mabalako, 1 in Katwa and 1 in Kayna;
5 new confirmed case deaths
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Monday, July 22, 2019
Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 2,592
of which 2,498 are confirmed / 94  probable.

In total, there were
1,743 deaths

(1,649 confirmed and 94 probable)

729 people healed.

272 suspected cases under investigation;

14 new confirmed cases, including 10 in Beni, 2 in Mandima, 1 in Oicha and 1 in Mutwanga;
6 new confirmed case deaths:

   3 community deaths including 1 in Beni, 1 in Mandima and 1 in Mutwanga;
   3 deaths at the CTE of Beni.  
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140 Contaminated health workers

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Minister of Health, Dr. Oly Ilunga Kalenga, has resigned to give the new team appointed by the Presidency every chance of success. In his letter of resignation, he recalled that the uniqueness of the government's position in the face of the epidemic was important to avoid creating harmful confusion for the rest of the response.
.....As a result, all communications related to the response will now be managed directly by the Presidency. Thus, this newsletter is the latest newsletter on the Ebola outbreak sent by the press team of the Ministry of Health. Thank you for having followed us all these months.
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There's been some big changes in the last week. The health minister resigned and new fellow along with committee will report to president. They are going to bring in a different vaccine and from what I can tell it looks like they will employ an old fire tactic of back burn and fire guard as they vaccinate a circle around the hot places.


So there will be 2 vaccines in the mix. What could possibly go wrong. hahaha

links to follow, I'm on the fly.

In Congo, a new plan to fight Ebola follows a government power struggle

The country’s health minister, Dr Oly Ilunga, resigned on Monday after a public dispute with donors at a meeting in Geneva over whether to roll out the second vaccine, which he opposed. The containment effort will no longer be overseen by the health ministry but by an expert committee reporting directly to Congo’s new president, Felix Tshisekedi.

Ilunga was the target of a scathing internal government report produced in April written by a commission convened by Congo’s new president, some of whose members are now overseeing the response.

The report said “arrogant” national health officials took “an aggressive and ostentatious attitude” when they visited the outbreak area, renting deluxe hotel rooms and expensive cars and “brandishing large dollar bills” while local health workers went unpaid.

A spokeswoman for Ilunga called the report “weak.” She said he had resigned not because of it, but because the president had split the authority to oversee the response between his office and an independent commission, which she claimed was a violation of the Congolese constitution.

Ilunga’s departure pleased some donors and agencies supporting the fight against Ebola. The United States is by far the biggest donor. Tibor P Nagy, the State Department’s top official for African affairs, told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday that Ilunga’s resignation “may be an improvement to the situation.”

The country is seeking $288 million to implement its new Ebola strategy, and is likely to get it. The World Bank recently offered $300 million. The United States increased its previous giving by $38 million this week, and federal aid officials have said they are committed to containing the outbreak at its source.

The new plan may include a campaign to win the hearts of the traumatised population in the isolated eastern provinces by immunizing them against other diseases, treating children for parasites, handing out food and even creating thousands of jobs. Experts hope efforts will be made to negotiate a truce with local militias.

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WHO and many donors endorsed new vaccine, made by Johnson & Johnson..
Ilunga vigorously opposed using it. He said it would confuse the populace and be difficult to administer, since it requires two doses given 56 days apart.

To avoid confusion, it will be deployed differently from the current single-dose Merck vaccine. While that one is used to “ring-vaccinate” everyone around each known case, the new vaccine will be used in areas further away to encircle the hot zones with immunized people.

For example, while the Merck vaccine has been given to Ugandan health workers on the Congo border, the new one will be deployed in Mbarara, a regional capital 60 miles away with a big hospital that ill patients might travel to.

https://bdnews24.com/world/africa/2019/07/27/in-congo-a-new-plan-to-fight-ebola-follows-a-government-power-struggle


https://bdnews24.com/world/africa/2019/07/27/in-congo-a-new-plan-to-fight-ebola-follows-a-government-power-struggle
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So now we wait...

Soviet spy who helped sound Ebola alarm in 1970s dies in Ukraine aged 86
https://tass.com/society/1070979

Since the beginning of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases is 2,713  (2,619 confirmed/94 probable)
In total, there were 1,823 deaths (1,729 confirmed/94 probable)
and 782 people healed.

423 suspected cases under investigation;
13 new confirmed cases, including 5 in Beni, 2 in Mabalako, 2 in Mandima, 1 in Nyiragongo (Goma), 1 in Vuhovi, 1 in Katwa and 1 in Mutwanga;
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151 contacts have been reported around the 2 nd confirmed case of EVD in Goma since 22 July 2019. Among these contacts, 118 have already been vaccinated, including 70 at high risk (CHR) and 48 contact contacts (CC);
The girl and the woman of this case of Goma constitute to date the 3 rd and 4 th positive cases of EVD recorded in Goma;
The sister of this same case, who fled to the province of South Kivu, was found in Biara in the health zone of Muti Muresa. 40 contacts have already been vaccinated around this contact this Thursday, August 1, 2019, including 9 high-risk contacts and 31 contacts.

A traditional healer among the confirmed cases of Mabalako
This is a 25 year old man, living and vaccinated on July 20, 2019 (geographical vaccination). He practiced self-medication on July 24-29, 2019 with a gradual worsening of symptoms.
It was taken to the CTE after validation on July 30, 2019 after the alert launched by a Community Relay (ReCo). It has been confirmed MVE on July 31, 2019. 22 people-contacts are listed around this case, whose investigations are ongoing.

The confirmed case of Lubero on the run
The confirmed case of July 25, 2019 in Lubero Health Zone (ZS), who fled into the community, is reported to be in Lukanga in the Masereka SZ, 17 km from Lubero. A team went there this Thursday, August 1, 2019 for its transfer to CTE. END

Dear all, here is the daily bulletin on the evolution of the response to the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak of 01 August 2019. The field information verification process has been more painful because of the sensitivity of the events on the ground. .
Please be indulgent for the delay.
(google translated)
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Vector starts making EpiVacEbola vaccine for Africa
they were ready to make 5,000 doses of the vaccine for Africa.
http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?pg=2&id=936661