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Un premier cas d’Ebola a \u00e9t\u00e9 confirm\u00e9 dimanche \u00e0 Goma, grande ville de l’est de la R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo, faisant craindre une propagation du virus dans la r\u00e9gion des Grands Lacs.
Selon les autorit\u00e9s sanitaires, cit\u00e9es par des m\u00e9dias locaux, \u00ab\u00a0la malade infect\u00e9e par le variant Bundibugyo provenait de Bunia, principal foyer actuel de l’\u00e9pid\u00e9mie dans la province de l’Ituri\u00a0\u00bb.
Le professeur Jean-Jacques Muyembe, directeur de l’Institut national de recherche biom\u00e9dicale (INRB), a indiqu\u00e9 aux m\u00e9dias qu’il s’agissait \u00ab\u00a0de l’\u00e9pouse d’un homme d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 d’Ebola \u00e0 Bunia\u00a0\u00bb.
\u00ab\u00a0Apr\u00e8s la mort de son mari, elle a rejoint Goma alors qu’elle \u00e9tait d\u00e9j\u00e0 contamin\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-il expliqu\u00e9.
Dans un communiqu\u00e9, le gouvernorat de Goma a affirm\u00e9 avoir imm\u00e9diatement activ\u00e9 les m\u00e9canismes de riposte sanitaire afin d’\u00e9viter toute propagation dans cette ville frontali\u00e8re du Rwanda.
La patiente a \u00e9t\u00e9 isol\u00e9e et les \u00e9quipes sanitaires proc\u00e8dent \u00e0 l’identification des cas contacts.
Les autorit\u00e9s locales ont \u00e9galement renforc\u00e9 les contr\u00f4les sanitaires aux points d’entr\u00e9e et de sortie de la ville.
L’Organisation mondiale de la Sant\u00e9 (OMS) avait d\u00e9clench\u00e9 dimanche son deuxi\u00e8me niveau d’alerte internationale le plus \u00e9lev\u00e9 face \u00e0 cette flamb\u00e9e qui touche d\u00e9sormais plusieurs zones de l’est congolais.
D’apr\u00e8s Africa CDC, l’agence sanitaire de l’Union africaine, l’\u00e9pid\u00e9mie a d\u00e9j\u00e0 caus\u00e9 88 d\u00e9c\u00e8s potentiellement li\u00e9s au virus sur 336 cas suspects recens\u00e9s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Un premier cas d’Ebola a \u00e9t\u00e9 confirm\u00e9 dimanche \u00e0 Goma, grande ville de l’est de la R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo, faisant craindre une propagation du virus dans la r\u00e9gion des Grands Lacs.Selon les autorit\u00e9s sanitaires, cit\u00e9es par des m\u00e9dias locaux, \u00ab\u00a0la malade infect\u00e9e par le variant Bundibugyo provenait de Bunia, principal foyer actuel de l’\u00e9pid\u00e9mie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[163],"class_list":{"0":"post-126395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sante"},"authors":[{"term_id":163,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dknews","display_name":"dknews","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f56c36580f44a9d8e8535169273499b7dddc82045bcc254bf7d154ff6b485f62?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"https:\/\/dknews.dz","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126395"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=126395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}