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France has confirmed its first Ebola case within the nation throughout the present outbreak, as a health care provider getting back from a humanitarian mission within the Democratic Republic of the Congo examined constructive, French well being authorities mentioned.
In a statement on Wednesday, the French Well being Ministry mentioned the healthcare employee was working in one of many areas the place the virus was circulating.
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“The affected person is being handled at a number one healthcare facility, following strict biosafety protocols,” the ministry mentioned. “All precautionary measures, together with the affected person’s isolation, have been applied upon arrival in France, with switch to the hospital beneath safe situations to stop any danger of contamination,” it mentioned.
An epidemiological investigation is beneath approach to determine people who might have been in touch with the affected person. They are going to be contacted by well being authorities to self-isolate for 21 days, the assertion added.
Since Might, the northeastern Ituri province of the DRC has been the epicentre of an Ebola outbreak, which has killed greater than 260 individuals and contaminated greater than a thousand to this point within the central African nation. Instances have additionally been reported in neighbouring Uganda.
On Might 17, the World Well being Group (WHO) declared the outbreak a “public well being emergency of worldwide concern”.
Most earlier Ebola outbreaks in DRC have been attributable to a virus referred to as Ebola Zaire, however this outbreak is attributable to a unique pressure referred to as Bundibugyo, for which there are at present no permitted vaccines or therapies.
