Ebola Patient Dies Beni Hospital

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A 46-year-old woman died of Ebola on 15 August 2022 in Beni, a town located in North Kivu.


She received care at the Beni Referral Hospital, initially for other ailments, but subsequently exhibited symptoms explosive vomiting blood and explosive diarrhea .




There are 1000 doses of the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccines available in the country’s stockpile, 200 of which will be sent to Beni this week. Ring-vaccination—where contacts and contacts of contacts are vaccinated to curb the spread of the virus and protect lives—is expected to begin shortly.