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[quote:Aya house ca:MV8zOTE3Nzg3XzcwNzU0NzA2Xzk1NzdGOUFB] https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/23/ebola-response-teams-struggling-vaccine-tracking/ [b]Since the beginning of October, a period during which cases have surged, a growing proportion of new cases in Beni have come from outside the contact lists and can’t be fitted into the chain of transmission, said Dr. Peter Salama, the WHO’s deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and response. [/b] The contract tracing performance is measured in percentages — the proportion of known contacts that are followed up daily[b]. Ideally that figure should be in the mid-to-high 90s. And it has generally been that high elsewhere in North Kivu, said Salama.[/b] [b]But in Beni, it has been highly variable, he said, adding that after episodes of violence, the contact tracing performance at Beni has dipped to 30 percent or 40 percent.[/b] The longer contact tracing flags, the more likely it is that the percentage of people being missed grows in an invisible fashion. Rimoin, who has a long-standing research project in DRC, knows the difficulties the responders face. “[b]The area in which this outbreak has emerged is a very difficult and complex place to have to do this work — to do any work. But to have to combat Ebola in this area is mindbogglingly difficult,” she said.[/b] While 300,000 doses seems like a substantial supply, [b]Salama said he worried using the vaccine geographically could draw down the stockpile quickly. He noted the WHO has to also consider what might happen if this outbreak spreads into neighboring Uganda — which is expected to soon start vaccinating health care workers in locations where cross-border cases might turn up — or Rwanda or South Sudan.[/b] Salama also said he is concerned a [b]geographic approach to vaccination might not solve the underlying problem — the fact that some people in the outbreak area continue to resist all of the control measures the responders use. [/b] “If your high-risk contacts are actively avoiding follow-up or vaccination or care, they’re going to avoid vaccination or geographic targeting strategy presumably as well,” he said. “So you might end up thinking you’ve got great coverage geographically, but you’ve missed the same high-risk contacts that we’re unable to follow up on now. So it will have very limited impact in that sense.” [/quote]
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WHO to hold emergency meeting over Congo Ebola outbreak that’s seen 33 cases in past week
The committee of experts may make recommendations to manage the outbreak, which was declared on Aug. 1 and has worsened, with a risk of the virus spreading from northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo into Uganda and Rwanda.
Congo’s health ministry said on Monday that in the past week alone 33 people were confirmed with Ebola virus and 24 of them died.
The ministry said the latest cases were confirmed between Oct. 8 and 14. In total, more than 200 suspected cases of the deadly hemorrhagic fever have been reported in this outbreak, all but a couple of dozen of them confirmed, while some 130 people have died since July.
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