Two people in Palorinya refugee settlement in Obongi district have tested positive for meningitis, health officials have revealed. Meningitis is caused by inflammation of the meninges that surround the brain and spinal cord and protect the central nervous system. The two, cases which are among South Sudanese refugees have been isolated at Belameling Health Center II in Zone 1,…
The Ministry of Health has begun carrying out surveillance around communities neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo after an outbreak of meningitis in the North-Eastern Tshopo Province where 129 lives have been lost. Health Minister Dr Ruth Aceng told URN in an interview that they are moving fast to deploy adequate surveillance teams to ensure…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared a meningitis outbreak in the North-Eastern Tshopo Province where 261 suspected cases and 129 deaths—a high case fatality ratio of 50%—have been reported. Confirmatory tests carried out by the Institute Pasteur in Paris detected Neisseria meningitidis – one of the most frequent types of bacterial meningitis with the…