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Federal Big Data Working Group - West Africa MPHISE

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This working group is focused on discussions about Federal Big Data (FBD).

The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about Federal Big Data (FBD).

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Kathy Gilbeaux mdmcdonald MDMcDonald_me_com

Email address for group

federal_big_data_westafrica_mphise@m.resiliencesystem.org

Hundreds of contacts identified and monitored in new Ebola flare-up in Guinea

Hundreds of contacts identified and monitored in new Ebola flare-up in Guinea

 

Nzérékoré, Guinea — More than 800 contacts of recently confirmed Ebola cases in Guinea’s southern prefecture of Nzérékoré have been identified and placed under medical monitoring in a bid to contain a new flare-up of Ebola virus disease.

A community in Dubreka Prefecture, Guinea, gathers for Ebola-awareness meeting.
WHO/P. Haughton

On 16 March, Guinean health authorities alerted WHO and partners to 3 probable Ebola deaths and 2 suspect Ebola cases in the village of Koropara Centre, all from the same family. The following day, the 2 suspect cases, a mother and her 8-year-old daughter, tested positive for Ebola virus disease. The child has since died in a treatment facility and the mother is reported seriously ill. A high-risk contact, who travelled to the neighbouring prefecture of Macenta to consult a healer, has also died and has since tested positive for Ebola, bringing the total number of probable and confirmed Ebola deaths in the flare-up to 5.

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