{"id":34321,"date":"2018-05-18T05:53:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T10:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34321"},"modified":"2018-05-18T05:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T10:53:42","slug":"we-now-have-urban-ebola-in-congo-who-warns-of-potentially-explosive-increase-in-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34321","title":{"rendered":"“We Now Have Urban Ebola” In Congo, WHO Warns Of “Potentially Explosive Increase” In Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“We Now Have Urban Ebola” In Congo, WHO Warns Of “Potentially Explosive Increase” In Cases<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Experts fear an “explosive increase” in Ebola cases <\/strong>after an outbreak in Congo entered a “new phase” and spread from the countryside to a city.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The BBC reports <\/em><\/a>that Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a case in Mbandaka, a city of a million people <\/strong>about 130km (80 miles) from the area where the first cases were confirmed earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The city is a major transportation hub <\/strong>with routes to the capital Kinshasa.<\/p>\n

Forty-four people have been infected and 23 people are known to have died.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Senior World Health Organization (WHO) official Peter Salama said the spread to Mbandaka meant there was the potential for an “explosive increase” in cases.<\/p>\n

“This is a major development in the outbreak,”<\/strong><\/em> he told the BBC. “We have urban Ebola, which is a very different animal from rural Ebola. The potential for an explosive increase in cases is now there.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Salama, the WHO’s deputy director-general for emergency preparedness and response, said Mbandaka’s location on the Congo river, widely used for transportation, raised the prospect of Ebola spreading to surrounding countries such as Congo-Brazzaville and the Central African Republic as well as downstream to Kinshasa, a city of 10 million people.<\/p>\n

“This puts a whole different lens on this outbreak and gives us increased urgency<\/strong> to move very quickly into Mbandaka to stop this new first sign of transmission,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The BBC adds<\/a> that the WHO said it was not recommending any trade or travel restrictions either within DR Congo, for example between Mbandaka and Kinshasa, or internationally.<\/p>\n

But Mr Salama said that 13 countries in the region were boosting border screening measures<\/strong> and said DR Congo itself was increasing exit screening measures.<\/p>\n

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