Saturday, 9 June 2018

PRO/AH/EDR> Ebola update (30): Congo DR, cases, WHO, action

Ebola -- DR Congo
Yesterday [7 Jun 2018], the DRC's Ministry of Health said a team of Chinese experts was arriving today in Kinshasa to assist the Congolese health authorities and reportedly bringing an experimental Chinese Ebola vaccine to health authorities, according to STAT today [see items [3] and [4] below]. To date, DRC has approved only the use of Merck's vaccine.
Finally, yesterday The Lancet published a letter by US experts who suggested that, although costly, using rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs)

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5847441&promed&0

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