コレラ 'stabilising' DR Congo 資本／首都: MSF
A member of the Congolese Red Cross explains the symptoms and 警戒s of コレラ to children in Kinshasa on January 18, 2018.
A コレラ 突発／発生 in the DR Congo 資本／首都 Kinshasa is stabilising and moving in a downward 傾向, the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Wednesday.
The 最新の 突発／発生 has 影響する／感情d 23 of the 26 州s in the 広大な central African country since 2017, with "55,000 people 落ちるing ill... and around 1,190 deaths", によれば MSF, also known as Doctors Without 国境s.
"The 状況／情勢 (in Kinshasa) is stable with a downward 傾向, but it does not 除外する vigilance, because the 疫病／流行性の is not yet 除去するd," said ジーンズ Liyolongo, MSF 緊急 調整者／コーディネーター.
Since the end of November, MSF has 記録，記録的な／記録するd a total of 826 コレラ 事例／患者s and 32 deaths.
"We reached the 頂点（に達する） in week one (first week of January) when we 越えるd 200 事例／患者s of コレラ," before 落ちるing 支援する to 150 事例／患者s in the third week in the 資本／首都, said Doctor Maria Mashako, an assistant 医療の 調整者／コーディネーター.
The コレラ 突発／発生 followed 豪雨 and 普及した flooding in Kinshasa, Africa's third largest city, in 早期に January.
コレラ is a 高度に contagious bacterial 感染, which can kill within hours if left untreated.
It 栄えるs in 条件s of poor 衛生設備 and 汚染するd water or food, and spreads quickly in the teeming and ramshackle 資本／首都.
Many area of the city are slums with little or no 接近 to 衛生設備 or electricity.
MS F has said it was the worst コレラ 疫病／流行性の in the country since 1994.
