Dr. Jean Kaseya

Force in Play

Monitoring outbreak trends

Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed 5,372 people among 10,414 confirmed cases, a 51.6% fatality rate, the National Institute of Public Health said in a report released October 31. Across Africa the toll is now 5,376, after Kenya and Uganda each recorded two deaths, the Africa CDC said on November 2.

Updated Nov 3

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Told the BBC on Oct. 21 that Nigeria's patient is the wife of a diplomat who holidayed in Uganda. Chaired the virtual meeting with African health ministers on Oct. 28, where he called for greater continental readiness.

Nigeria's first Bundibugyo Ebola patient is the wife of a diplomat who holidayed in Uganda, Africa CDC chief Jean Kaseya told the BBC. She is isolated in Abuja, and 44 contacts, most of them health workers, are being monitored.

Updated Nov 1