Talk:2018 Équateur province Ebola outbreak/Archive 1

sitrep

article per MEDMOS, will place situation reports here as they come in from WHO(update List of Ebola outbreaks accordingly)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 04:33, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

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• sit rep 1

ok, I'll follow and fix up the wording/sentence structure as necessary, fact check. JuanTamad (talk) 02:37, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

you don't need to post the sitreps here I think. A citation in the article is sufficient. JuanTamad (talk) 07:18, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

sounds good--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:30, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you all for the sit rep and all the work. Geraldshields11 (talk) 17:03, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

• keep eye on--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:13, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
• new report?[2]--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:17, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

• I've been looking for the new report but with no success. The only place with new official figures is the WHO Ebola index page, but it's not a stable source to cite. The DRC health ministry doesn't seem to have current press releases. The minister seems to have given a press conference at the vaccination inaugural jamboree yesterday, which might have been the press source? Espresso Addict (talk) 21:16, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

I guess officially we have to wait for sitrep 4...--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:38, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

if needed could be used to fill in affected countries

Subsection?

Infection alert after dying Ebola patients taken to Congo prayer meetingpotentially infecting 50 people(in a city of 1 million)...might need its own subsection(under epidemiology) in the coming days[3]...IMO--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:30, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Ring vaccination

This outbreak will be the first real test of suppressing an Ebola outbreak with ring vaccination since the first, highly experimental use of the vaccine in the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. This angle is probably worth in-depth reporting, if we can find suitable sources. -- The Anome (talk) 09:23, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

the problem w/ vaccination in general is that the virus(according to references) had a 5 month head-start before being detected(readded the image per edit reason)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:06, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

here's another about the success of early efforts, but it's not over yet. STAT and this author have done good reporting on outbreaks in the past. JuanTamad (talk) 04:06, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Will the 4,000 vaccines cover ring vaccination in a city of 1.1 million or will they go to the original outbreak location? I can not find a RS. Geraldshields11 (talk) 13:49, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

According to WHO offical Peter Salama priority to people in Mbandaka who had been in contact with those suspected of carrying the Ebola virus before people in any other affected area . Rump1234 (talk) 13:49, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks @Rump1234: Also, I found the BBC source independently just a moment ago and checked back here. Geraldshields11 (talk) 15:29, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Consolidation

I've hacked the article around a bit to make it less of a timeline and more a consolidated account. I'd suggest just adding new situation report figures to the table and trying to avoid adding numerical updates from other sources. If these are added in between the official updates, they should probably be removed when WHO official reports catch up. I've removed all the contact numbers; these could potentially be added to the table but were just cluttering up the text. Hopefully I haven't deleted anything too important. Espresso Addict (talk) 06:22, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

@Espresso Addict: Thank you! This has greatly improved the article, which was starting to become a wall of unconsolidated text. -- The Anome (talk) 09:59, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

agree--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:32, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Regional map

I've removed the regional map again. At the moment, all the cases are restricted to one single province, and there's no need to put a multi-region map into the article in mere anticipation that it will be needed in the future. With any luck, the outbreak will continue to be contained within a single region and we won't need to put the map back back. -- The Anome (talk) 10:04, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

ok, however should the outbreak progress(even more) it should be placed back...IMO--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:34, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

The map below shows the regions of the DRC. Names of regions affected are in bold type.

	1. Kinshasa	14. Ituri Province
	2. Kongo Central	15. Haut-Uele
	3. Kwango	16. Tshopo
	4. Kwilu Province	17. Bas-Uele
	5. Mai-Ndombe Province	18. Nord-Ubangi
	6. Kasaï Province	19. Mongala
	7. Kasaï-Central	20. Sud-Ubangi
	8. Kasaï-Oriental	21. Équateur
	9. Lomami Province	22. Tshuapa
	10. Sankuru	23. Tanganyika Province
	11. Maniema	24. Haut-Lomami
	12. South Kivu	25. Lualaba Province
	13. North Kivu	26. Haut-Katanga Province

@Ozzie10aaaa: Absolutely. If the situation warrants it, we can even make and maintain a custom map, as has been done with other outbreaks. -- The Anome (talk) 10:39, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

thanks(hopefully the situation on the ground in DRC improves)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:43, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Map in infobox

Is it possible to have a map of Africa in the infobox to show where the country is? Christian75 (talk) 10:16, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

will look into it--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:36, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

I've added one. -- The Anome (talk) 10:45, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Maps

I just thought I'd add a link to Reliefweb's maps page for this epidemic:

https://reliefweb.int/disaster/ep-2018-000049-cod/thumb#content_top

And here's are two articles about the extreme difficulty of generating maps in this current situation, due to confusion and lack of geographical data:

• https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/most-maps-of-the-new-ebola-outbreak-are-wrong/560777/
• http://virologydownunder.com/mapping-ebola-in-the-hobbyist-zone/

-- The Anome (talk) 22:05, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

yes there maps are impressive[4]--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:12, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

This OpenStreetMap initiative looks really interesting, too: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Congo-Kinshasa/2018_Ebola_Outbreak_OSM_Response -- The Anome (talk) 22:37, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

yes it is, hadn't seen it before--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:48, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

I had briefly mentioned this under Response/Surveillance and prevention of transmission, referencing The Atlantic article. Espresso Addict (talk) 23:20, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

ProMED mail

ProMED-mail is another good way to stay up on developments. The commentary at the end by the moderators is also interesting. Most recent: EBOLA UPDATE (15): CASE UPDATE, QUARANTINE BREACHES, BORDER CONTROLS, VACCINEJuanTamad (talk) 01:58, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

it is a respected source, and have used it --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:21, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Cause for optimism?/coming to an end

additional content/discussion

Right now, it looks like there are grounds for cautious optimism, with no new cases for some time, and contact trcking numbers slowly winding down. There's a perhaps over-optimistic Voice of America article here: https://projects.voanews.com/drc-ebola-outbreak/ that looks at reasons why this particular outbreak may have been different from previous ones. -- The Anome (talk) 12:12, 20 June 2018 (UTC) we could include what you've indicated in the article(however the latest situation report seems to identify cases in Ingende WHO had never officially recognized spread to other health zones?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:32, 20 June 2018 (UTC) Ah. I hadn't noticed the Ingende health zone suspected case, or that some tests from earlier suspected cases are still pending. The situation is still fluid, then. -- The Anome (talk) 12:46, 20 June 2018 (UTC) Lets not add optimism yet because there may be unreported cases, such as when the person fled and then may have exposed the prayer group. Geraldshields11 (talk) 15:01, 22 June 2018 (UTC) the outbreak will be called the 24th of July no more contacts(essentially waiting for 42 day cycle) per [5](am considering maybe taking to GAWikipedia:Good_article_nominations) will be working on an outlook section--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:43, 2 July 2018 (UTC) Olivero, Jesús; Fa, John E.; Real, Raimundo; Márquez, Ana L.; Farfán, Miguel A.; Vargas, J. Mario; Gaveau, David; Salim, Mohammad A.; Park, Douglas; Suter, Jamison; King, Shona; Leendertz, Siv Aina; Sheil, Douglas; Nasi, Robert (30 October 2017). "Recent loss of closed forests is associated with Ebola virus disease outbreaks". Scientific Reports. 7 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-017-14727-9. ISSN 2045-2322. Retrieved 10 July 2018. "How deforestation shares the blame for the Ebola epidemic". Washington Post. Retrieved 10 July 2018. Rulli, Maria Cristina; Santini, Monia; Hayman, David T. S.; D'Odorico, Paolo (14 February 2017). "The nexus between forest fragmentation in Africa and Ebola virus disease outbreaks". Scientific Reports. 7: 41613. doi:10.1038/srep41613. ISSN 2045-2322. Retrieved 10 July 2018. Disambiguation This article has now been moved from 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak to 2018 Équateur province Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak. This is clearly over-long, but necessary in the short term to disambiguate it from the new Kivu outbreak. What would be a better title for this? Perhaps 2018 Équateur province DRC Ebola virus outbreak? Or just 2018 Équateur province Ebola virus outbreak? -- The Anome (talk) 12:40, 5 August 2018 (UTC) I think the title your proposing/ have moved is fine...2018 Équateur province Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:46, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

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