Oly Ilunga Kalenga
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Oly Ilunga Kalenga is a Belgian–Congolese medical doctor who was the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Minister of Public Health from 2016 to 2019. He resigned his post on 22 July 2019, then was arre
Oly Ilunga Kalenga in 2018
Kivu Ebola epidemic
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The Kivu Ebola epidemic was an outbreak of Ebola virus disease mainly in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in other parts of Central Africa, from 2018 to 2020. Between 1 August 2018 and 25
Oly Ilunga Kalenga
…response. His tenure as public health minister was marked by two outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in the country, in Équateur in May–July 2018 and in Kivu and Ituri from August 2018 (ongoing as of April 2020). Vaccination was key to the successful control of the Équateur outbreak, and Ilunga Kalenga stated that he was vaccinated…
Note Above graph begins in Aug. 2018 at one month intervals, then progresses to two month intervals as the outbreak intensifies at beginning of 2019, then finally has a four-month interval until it is declared over (due to a flare up just days prior to the first two 21 day period to call the outbreak over per WHO, which caused a restart of the coutdown) *2018–19 Kivu Ebola epidemic (total cases-deaths as of 25 June 2020) *x indicates (2) 21 day periods have passed and outbreak is over
Democratic Republic of the Congo EVD outbreaks 1976-9 November 2018 (Note: total cases for this date does not reflect 52 suspected cases nor does it reflect the final case numbers) (Uganda has second most EVD cases '00–'01/425 West African Ebola virus epidemic '13-'16/ >28,000)
Goma, the capital of North Kivu province
Fruit bats (group of Rousettus aegyptiacus)