According to the Guangzhou Customs news, in response to the re-emergence of "Ebola" hemorrhagic fever epidemic in Africa, Guangzhou Customs, in accordance with the announcement of the General Administration of Customs, to take effective measures to prevent the epidemic from the ports of entry.
The World Health Organization recently informed that as of May 13, this year, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) **** reported 39 cases of "Ebola" hemorrhagic fever suspected cases, of which 19 deaths, the case fatality rate of 48.7%. The World Health Organization has sent experts to the country to assist the local government to deal with the epidemic.
Guangzhou, as China's largest African population center, has close economic and trade ties with Africa. Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is the air port with the largest number of direct flights to Africa and transit flights to Africa, with more than 190 direct flights to Africa every month and about 45,000 people entering and exiting the country, accounting for about 57% of the country's ports. In the face of the epidemic situation, Guangzhou Customs closely deployed port epidemic prevention and control. Based on the daily collection of epidemic information, the comprehensive navigation situation of each external port and the 2014 "Ebola" epidemic, the Customs locked seven key routes to effectively increase the risk of research and judgment. All customs clearance sites have tightened hygiene and quarantine, and implemented key monitoring on key transportation means and key people. Strengthening joint prevention and control at ports, coordinating with civil aviation management departments, and screening international passengers from the DRC in advance through the API system (Advance Passenger Information System)**** to enjoy passenger information. 8-13 May, Guangzhou Customs under Baiyun Airport Customs carried out focused screening of 10,059 passengers, including 270 inbound passengers of Congolese nationality, on 35 key flights, and found that there were infectious diseases. The Customs and Excise Department of Guangzhou Customs and Excise Department of Baiyun Airport carried out a focused inspection on 10,059 passengers on 35 key flights, including 270 passengers of Congolese nationality, and found 2 people with symptoms of contagious diseases.
Guangzhou Customs reminded inbound and outbound passengers: travel to Africa can go to the local international travel health care center to consult the "Ebola" hemorrhagic fever and other infectious diseases in the local prevalence and precautions. "Ebola" hemorrhagic fever as an acute hemorrhagic infectious disease, through contact with the patient's blood or other body fluids, through the skin, respiratory tract or conjunctiva infection, incubation period of 2-21 days. If you have fever, headache, muscle pain and other discomforts when you return to your home country, you must take the initiative to report to the Customs at the port of entry and cooperate with the inspection. Within 21 days after entering the country, if the above discomfort occurs, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible for treatment and take the initiative to inform the recent travel situation
Dong Kong (Democratic Republic of the Congo) added four new suspected cases of Ebola Accumulated confirmed cases of 11 cases
May 12, 2018 - The Congolese (Democratic Republic of the Congo) health ministry said on May 10, the new round of the Ebola outbreak in the northwestern part of the central African country for the first time to confirm the death of a case, the cumulative confirmed cases of 11 cases. The cumulative number of confirmed cases is 11. On the same day, a hospital in the infected area of Bikoro town on the 10th admitted four new suspected cases.
A spokesman for the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that Ebola infections and deaths have been reported in the area around Bikoro town nearly five months ago. That time span means the virus may have had a chance to wreak havoc before a response was put in place.
In light of the latest outbreak in the DRC, Nigeria has moved to tighten health checks at airports and other ports of entry and exit to guard against the risk of transmission.
New cases
DRC Health Minister Ollie Ilunga Kalunga said at a news conference on the evening of the 10th that the cumulative diagnosis of 11 Ebola cases, including one fatal case, the deceased was a nurse, worrying him.
Serge Ngaleto, the director of a major hospital in the town of Bikoro, told Reuters that the hospital had admitted four new suspected Ebola infections on the same day, two of whom were medical workers who had been in contact with suspected infected people.
Kalunga said the deaths occurred at this hospital. The hospital had admitted a total of seven hemorrhagic fever patients by the end of the day, two of whom were diagnosed with Ebola.
Hemorrhagic fever struck a village in Bikoro town last week, sickening 21 people, 17 of whom died. Kalenga emphasized that Ebola is not the only virus that causes hemorrhagic fever and it has not been confirmed that the 17 deaths were caused by Ebola infection.
Ebola can spread rapidly from person to person, with no precautions or specific treatment, and can be up to 90 percent lethal. This is the ninth Ebola outbreak in the DRC since the virus was discovered in 1976.
Most of the Ebola outbreaks have occurred in remote areas of this central African country, meaning the outbreaks have been relatively easy to spread. However, the village and town of Bikoro where the latest outbreak occurred is not far from the Congo River. The river is the main waterway for transportation and commercial trade in the DRC, with Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC, and Brazzaville, the capital of neighboring Congo-Brazzaville, both located downstream.
Sending reinforcements
Eugene Kabambi, spokesman for the WHO office in the DRC, confirmed on 10 October that Ebola infections and deaths had been reported in the areas around the town of Bikoro in December last year and January this year, respectively.
"Based on our preliminary information, there have been cases of infection since December last year and the first death was reported in January this year." He said, "However, the link between the deaths and the latest outbreak has not been confirmed."
In response to the outbreak, the DRC's health ministry sent a medical team of 12 specialists to Bikoro to track down new cases, identify the epicenter of the outbreak and villages where cases have appeared, and provide medical resources. The medical team has arrived in Mbandaka, the capital of Equateur province, about 150 kilometers from the outbreak area.
The DRC's health ministry said in a statement, "This advance medical team is carrying the first (medical) equipment, mainly detection devices (that) allow for a rapid diagnosis of Ebola virus (and) thermometers."
Strong monitoring
The emergence of an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sparked alarm in the West African nation of Nigeria.
Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and other West African countries experienced an outbreak of Ebola in 2014, **** more than 11,000 people died. Nigeria also saw a small number of cases at the time, but they were quickly brought under control.
Nigeria's Immigration spokesman Sendi James said on October 10 that after that outbreak four years ago, Nigeria began to monitor the body temperatures of some of those who entered the country. After the latest outbreak in the DRC, Nigeria has stepped up health checks at airports and other ports of entry and exit to guard against the risk of transmission.
"We are using all available equipment to monitor the virus (spread), which means there will be increased use of thermometers," James told Reuters, "We have to take extra measures to ensure that all arrivals are screened."
Nigeria's health minister, Isaac Adewale, had earlier confirmed that the ministry had begun to step up surveillance of the outbreak at airports and other land entry and exit points, with a focus on arrivals from the DRC, and that "the Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC) is also looking at sending a medical team to DRC to assist in controlling the outbreak.