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Ebola: Two suspected cases arriving from Uganda have been hospitalized in Milan; in Congo, treatment centers are on fire.
Two Italian aid workers who were considered at risk of Ebola in Milan have been hospitalized at the Sacco Hospital, a specialized facility for infectious diseases. One is a 31-year-old man and the other a 33-year-old woman, both aid workers who arrived in Milan from Malpensa airport via a flight from Addis Ababa and returning from Uganda, where they had spent three months with Combonian missionaries in a region bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In the country where the epidemic’s epicenter was identified, deaths continue to rise: official data from the Ministry of Health indicate 204 victims in three different provinces likely caused by the virus. The World Health Organization’s report from last Friday reported 177 deaths in the DRC out of 750 suspected cases, although the 82 officially reported cases and 7 deaths communicated by Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus were officially identified. A treatment tent for Ebola was set on fire in Mongbwalu, after angry and suspicious people set the fire due to the management of the health emergency. This had already happened in Rwampara a few days earlier.
The emergency continues to spread across Africa: the African Union’s health agency (Africa CDC) considers ten other countries at risk as the epidemic is spreading rapidly. These are: South Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Congo, Burundi, Angola, the Central African Republic, and Zambia. More than 50 international operators will arrive in affected areas to work alongside approximately 480 locally hired professionals. “The challenge today – explained Project Manager Valeria Greppi of Doctors Without Borders in Goma – is to treat patients with Ebola, trace their contacts, and at the same time ensure essential services and access to care for other diseases such as malaria, cholera, and HIV.” FIFA is also monitoring the outbreak: the national football team is expected to play in the World Cup, which will be held in the USA, Canada, and Mexico, in three weeks.
The alert in Milan was triggered at dawn in Lurate Caccivio and Bulgarograsso, in Comasco. Their tests will arrive this afternoon. The two aid workers returned to Italy with five other people. Both have shown symptoms consistent with the contagion: high fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and neurological symptoms. They were transported to the Sacco Hospital in two ambulances and admitted to isolation rooms, while at the same time, a precautionary isolation was implemented for their families. The 33-year-old’s daughter had been affected in Africa by malaria, and the situation currently known does not rule out the Ebola virus. She may be admitted to intensive care.
If the Ebola contagion emerges, the patient would be transferred to the Spallanzani Hospital in Rome, the only Italian center considered capable of treating the disease. Close contacts would also observe an isolation period equal to the estimated incubation period of the disease: 21 days. The localized outbreak in the Ituri province was caused by the Budibugyo virus, which currently has no specific vaccines or therapies. The last Ebola outbreak in the DRC was identified in 2025; between 2018 and 2020, more than 2,000 people died.
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