Efficiency of Field Laboratories for Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak during Chronic Insecurity, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2018–2020

Résumé fourni par la source

S ince the discovery of Ebola virus in 1976, the Dem- ocratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has faced 15 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks.The 10th outbreak was the longest (August 1, 2018, through June 25, 2020) and the most widespread and caused the most fatalities recorded to date in DRC (1,2).That outbreak occurred in urban-rural areas with high population mobility, was aided by good road infrastructure, and was driven by economic reasons and humanitarian issues.The movement of the population probably contributed to virus spread and created challenges for controlling the outbreak, in particular for contact tracing and ring vaccination.Community distrust of response teams, resulting from ≈2 decades of armed conflict in eastern DRC and commonly encouraged by sociopolitical leaders' messaging, especially during the 2018-2019 election period (3), led to recurring misunderstandings and rejection of most countermeasures proposed to control the outbreak.In response to the scale and mobility of this outbreak, the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB) in Kinshasha, DRC, deployed 13 field laboratories and strategically positioned them across the outbreak areas (3).The laboratories were aimed at bringing diagnostic capacity closer to the outbreak epicenters, shortening turnaround times, and providing real-time guidance for newly available medical countermeasures.Most laboratories were provided Efficiency of Field Laboratories for Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak during Chronic Insecurity, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2018-2020

Ce résumé expose les affirmations des auteurs. BNTIC ne l’interprète pas comme une validation indépendante des résultats.