To:               promed@usa.healthnet.org
Subject:          PROMED: Ebola - Zaire: Report from the Missions
Date sent:        Thu, 06 Jul 1995 18:26:48 EDT
From:             Stephen Morse 


EBOLA - ZAIRE: REPORT FROM MISSIONS, 6 JULY
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At 04:02 PM 7/6/95 EDT, Stan Slade wrote:

... As it turns out, we just yesterday had word from Zaire about new 
ebola cases in Kikwit.  Here are two memos that circulated in our
office after folks talked to Dan Fountain's daughter Katherine and
with missionary Ed Noyes:

Katherine Niles called yesterday and we caught up on lots of items, one
of which was the Ebola crisis in Zaire.  She reported that she had
recently talked with her mother by radio (I think within the last couple of
days) and learned that 11 more deaths had occurred in Kikwit due to
Ebola.  While the World Health Organization may have declared that the
crisis is over, it's still a crisis if you or your family member dies!  Ebola
has not disappeared off the screen!

As Donna mentioned this morning in her e-mail, the Ebola crisis is not
completely over.  We recently had word from Ed Noyes that new cases
were identified in the Vanga area.  Vanga health zone personnel have
been responding.  A family supposedly returned from Kikwit, the parents
died with clear signs of the disease, and they were buried in the
traditional manner exposing many others.  Their child came down with
symptoms and was accused of witchcraft.  He was kicked out of his
own village, and passed through three other villages before the Vanga
health people caught up with him.  A half dozen or more cases may
develop in the end.  Please continue to pray for an end to this awful
epidemic.

-- With thanks to Jack Woodall for forwarding this report.
E-mail: jack.woodall@wadsworth.org
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