1. It's rare to have a single #Ebola case. How big will the current outbreak in #DRC get? Anyone's guess at this point. But authorities have confirmed a 2nd person has died at Mbandaka, the sister-in-law of the first identified case.
https://twitter.com/WHOAFRO/status/1518880099680014338
2. The woman died yesterday; she started experiencing symptoms 12 days earlier, ie about a week after her now dead brother-in-law. No word yet if she was treated in hospital & if so, if the hospital realized she had #Ebola & staff took appropriate precautions.
3. @WHOAFRO says that 145 contacts of these two people have been identified and are being monitored to see if they develop symptoms of #Ebola and need to be isolated.
No word yet if the 2nd case had been previously vaccinated; the 1st case was.
No word yet if the 2nd case had been previously vaccinated; the 1st case was.
4. During today's @WHO press conference, @DrMikeRyan says one of the cases was a health worker. That's news, I think. Said that ring vaccination in Mbandaka was beginning today.
5. @DrMikeRyan confirms that the first known #Ebola case in the Mbandaka outbreak was a health worker — a student nurse. One of the more tragic things about Ebola is it often takes infections in health workers for authorities to realize an outbreak is underway. #DRC
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