Ebola -- DR Congo
On 9 May 2018, the day after [the] country declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Bikoro, the 1st WHO and Ministry of Health response team arrived in the provincial capital Mbandaka to begin setting up the specialized cold chain needed to store a vaccine that had been successfully used in 2017 to contain another Ebola outbreak.
By 11 May 2018, teams had started to trace contacts of all active cases and WHO partners were setting up treatment centres in Bikoro. The next day, an air
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5848785&promed&0
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