TY - JOUR
T1 - Inungu, J, Iheduru-Anderson K, & Ossam, J. O. (October 2019). “Recurrent Ebolavirus Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Update and Challenges.”
AU - Inungu, Joseph Ntein
AU - Iheduru-Anderson, Kechinyere
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - The current Ebolavirus disease (EVD) outbreak in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri is the tenth outbreak affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); the first outbreak occurring in a war context, and the second most deadly Ebolavirus outbreak on record following the 2014 outbreak in West Africa. The DRC government’s response consisted of applying a package of interventions including detection and rapid isolation of cases, contact tracing, population mapping, and identification of high-risk areas to inform a coordinated effort. The coordinated effort was to screen, ring vaccinate, and conduct laboratory diagnoses using GeneXpert (Cepheid) polymerase chain reaction.
AB - The current Ebolavirus disease (EVD) outbreak in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri is the tenth outbreak affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); the first outbreak occurring in a war context, and the second most deadly Ebolavirus outbreak on record following the 2014 outbreak in West Africa. The DRC government’s response consisted of applying a package of interventions including detection and rapid isolation of cases, contact tracing, population mapping, and identification of high-risk areas to inform a coordinated effort. The coordinated effort was to screen, ring vaccinate, and conduct laboratory diagnoses using GeneXpert (Cepheid) polymerase chain reaction.
UR - https://www.aimspress.com/article/10.3934/publichealth.2019.4.502
M3 - Article
VL - 6
SP - 502
EP - 513
JO - AIMS Public Health.
JF - AIMS Public Health.
IS - 4
ER -