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EBOLA Outbreak in Gabon, Africa
and Republic of Congo near their common border
Beginning December 2001, through about 2/7/02
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First death Dec. 2. in Ekata, a
Gabon village about five miles from the Republic of Congo border. By
1/20/02, 34 deaths (23 in Gabon and 11 in Congo).
This
article (1/7/02 from CNN) covers a lot of bases.
Info about previous ebola outbreaks in Gabon
BIG
MAP
below on this page:
maps | information
sources | background info |
reports pasted, paraphrased, linked
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NEWS SOURCES
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| Date underlined dates are links to reports from WHO |
Total Cases |
Deaths | Contacts |
News
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| 2/7/02 "Update 16" data as of 2/5/02 |
69 49 Gabon 20 Congo |
54 42 Gabon 12 Congo |
WHO: "This increase in confirmed cases largely results from a reclassification of suspect cases following the availability of laboratory results. " | |
| 1/24/02 "Update 15" data as of 1/20/02 |
42
(+22?) 26 Gabon 16 Congo (+22 more suspected in Gabon) |
34 23 Gabon 11 Congo |
Not
known-- team still not back into Mekambo. |
WHO: "The international team is operational in Libreville, Makokou and The Republic of the Congo. Discussions with the provincial and national authorities for the return of the team to Mekambo are continuing and it is hoped the team will go back at the earliest possible date to contain the outbreak with the local authorities." |
| 1/11/02 |
[Full
AP Article] GENEVA (January 11, 2002 12:19 p.m. EST) -The
17-member international [health] team and Gabonese health ministry
officials left... Mekambo on Tuesday because of threats from local
inhabitants...Tension
has been high in Mekambo and surrounding villages, where many blame
outsiders for the difficulties they have had since the outbreak
began in Gabon and neighboring Republic of Congo. Rumors are rife
that witchcraft and vampires rather than Ebola have caused the
deaths.An
additional reason for the local hostility was apparently the efforts
of the international team - which arrived mid-December - to halt
traditional burial practices such as washing corpses because this
increases the risk of spreading the virus.
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| 1/9/02 | 34 21 Gabon 13 Congo 16 more suspected in Gabon |
25 18 Gabon 7 Congo |
231 197 Gabon 34 Congo |
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| 12/29/01 |
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| 12/20/01 | 27
reported 16 Gabon 11 Congo (25 confirmed) |
15 | 227
Total: 133 Gabon 94 Congo |
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| 12/18/01 | 19 | 13 | 193 |
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| 12-11-01 | 12 suspected | 10 |
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| 12-10-01 | 11 | AP Story at Nando Times : 11 Deaths so far (more expected): 10 in one extended family, plus a health-care worker. First suspected last Tuesday (12/4/01), with many dead wild animals and first human symptoms. Sunday(12/9/01): a laboratory in the eastern city of Franceville (in Gabon) confirmed Ebola. (or see this from MSNBC) | ||
| 12-04-01 | 7 | On
4 December, WHO received reports of 7 deaths in an outbreak of
suspected viral haemorrhagic fever in Ogooué Ivindo Province in the
north-eastern part of the country (see
map).
A team from the Gabon Ministry of Health and the Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), supported by military medical personnel and the WHO sub-Regional Epidemic Response Team are en route to Ogooué Ivindo Province today for a preliminary field investigation.
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Reports pasted, paraphrased, linked, from news stories (Reuters, AP, ABC etc):
12/10/01--
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11 dead in Ebola outbreak in Gabon
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"GABON HAS has cordoned off a remote forest village in an effort to contain the outbreak of Ebola"--"
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"...a disease that has killed at least 17 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo is almost certainly not the deadly Ebola virus as was feared. Health Minister Mamba Mashako said a respiratory infection seemed to be to blame for the deaths at the village of Misangandu in the centre of the vast country."
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12/09/01--
Sources of "sort of current" information--
From the World Health Organization (WHO):
Disease outbreaks reported - index
Outbreak news
- Haemorrhagic Fevers--should always have their latest postings
(find a summary and links to day-by-day updates in the table
above
Ebola Outbreaks - Updates (provided by Institute of Molecular Virology--They seem to keep this fairly up-to-date.)
The Nando Times Health & Science News--They will usually feature a current article as information on the outbreak changes.
These links are set to search current news
stories for relevant articles:
Search
CNN for 'ebola' within the last 30 days
ABCNEWS.com Search
for 'ebola and 'gabon' within the last 30 daysABCNEWS.com Search
for 'ebola and 'congo' within the last 30 days
AP Breaking News - From The Associated Press--all the unsorted stories on the AP line--about the last 5 or 6 hours-worth at any given time
maps:-
Location map from WHO: Gabon in Africa, and larger map with the province.
The following is pasted from 2001 - Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Gabon - Update 12/11/01
Gabon's first verified Ebola outbreak occurred in December 1994. Investigators studying the outbreak were told of unexplained deaths of great apes, gorillas and chimpanzees, but no dead animals were found. The outbreak ended six weeks later.
Two other Ebola epidemics were confirmed in the spring and autumn of 1996. In early February, about 40 km south (seven hours by boat) from the 1994 outbreak, 13 people became ill after butchering a dead chimpanzee they had found. In October of that year, another Ebola epidemic was confirmed in the same general region and led to the introduction of the outbreak in South Africa where one person died.