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STORY: GENEVA / UGANDA EBOLA NEW CASE
TRT: 1:56
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 AUGUST 2019 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Fadela Chaib, spokesperson, World Health Organization (WHO):
“This girl is aged nine years old; she’s was, she’s a Congolese girl, so she’s from DRC. She was tested positive for Ebola in Uganda and she came to seek help from DRC to seek medical care on a motorbike.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Fadela Chaib, spokesperson, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We don’t know if she’s still alive or not. I don’t have the details of the treatment, what I know is, when she turned up at the border, she was showing all of the symptoms of an Ebola case; she was bleeding from the mouth, a rash, very sick, fever.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Fadela Chaib, spokesperson, World Health Organization (WHO):
“They were able identify quickly this case, to isolate it. This girl was taken care of in an Ebola Treatment Centre and we are now working with the Ugandan and DRC authorities to try to trace all the contacts of this family, the mother and the girl.”
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Fadela Chaib, spokesperson, World Health Organization (WHO):
“As of 27 August, there have been two, almost 3,000 cases of Ebola with 1,998 deaths and 893 survivors; most of the cases are in Nord Kivu province.”
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As the number of Ebola virus infections continues to climb in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a new case of the disease has been identified in neighbouring Uganda, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
Ahead of a visit by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to DRC to show solidarity with victims and healthworkers, WHO spokesperson Fadela Chaib confirmed that the individual, a child, had been stopped in a routine border check at Mpondwe in western Uganda, reportedly on Wednesday.
“This girl is aged nine years old…she’s a Congolese girl, so she’s from DRC,” Chaib said. “She was tested positive for Ebola in Uganda and she came to seek help from DRC to seek medical care on a motorbike.”
Amid reports that she had died, the WHO spokesperson explained that the girl was clearly extremely poorly when health officers stopped her.
“We don’t know if she’s still alive or not,” Chaib said, adding: “I don’t have the details of the treatment, what I know is, when she turned up at the border, she was showing all of the symptoms of an Ebola case; she was bleeding from the mouth, a rash, very sick, fever.”
The development follows the deaths of two people in Uganda in June after they had crossed the border from DRC. A third individual from the same family died after being he was sent back to DRC.
Asked about the dangers of transmission within Uganda, Chaib emphasized that Ugandan officials had acted quickly to limit the risks of the disease spreading and had the expertise to minimize contact with the infected patient.
“They were able identify quickly this case, to isolate it,” she said. “This girl was taken care of in an Ebola Treatment Centre and we are now working with the Ugandan and DRC authorities to try to trace all the contacts of this family, the mother and the girl.”
According to WHO’s 27 August update on the latest Ebola outbreak in DRC’s eastern Ituri and Nord Kivu provinces, which was declared on 1 August 2018, “there have been …almost 3,000 cases of Ebola with 1,998 deaths and 893 survivors,” Chaib said. “Most of the cases are in Nord Kivu province.”
