By William Madouk<\/p>\n
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The Northern Bahr el Ghaza State Ministry of Health has said three suspected Hepatitis E and two monkeypox cases have been detected in Aweil.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Addressing the media, Dr. Riiny Riiny Lual, state minister of health said they have collected a sample of suspected cases of Hepatitis and Mpox.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have suspected cases of Hepatitis E and also we have suspected cases of Monkeypox,\u201d said Lual.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to reassures the population in Northern Bahr el Ghazal that we don\u2019t have an outbreak,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n He called on the public not to panic since the collected samples were sent to Juba for further check-ups.<\/p>\n Besides, Dr. Lual tied consecutive mysterious death cases to food poisoning, asserting that the lab in Juba confirmed it and an investigation is ongoing over the matter.<\/p>\n Dr. Riing Yak Chan, the Director of Preventive Health Services, said they have detected three Hepatitis E and two suspected cases of Mpox.<\/p>\n \u201cWe happened is that last week, there were cases of Hepatitis E that were suspected on RDT in Wadwiel Refugee settlement, Kuem and also Hai \u2013 Dalala, those three cases were positive of RTD for Hepatitis E.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTheir samples are taken to Juba to confirm whether these are cases of Hepatitis E or they are positive or negative for Hepatitis E.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, health education focal person\u00b8 Dr. Luka Lual said the first suspected case was detected in an 8-year-old boy in Aweil State Hospital on Sunday.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Northern Bahr el Ghazal, we have a suspected case of monkeypox which was found in Aweil State Hospital on Sunday morning. An 8-year-old boy came from Apada in Nyalath, Aweil Center County, with rashes and fever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He urged the public to report any suspected cases to the nearest health facility for early management.<\/p>\n According to WHO, Mpox is a viral illness caused by the monkeypox virus, a species of the genus orthopoxvirus. Mpox was first discovered in humans in 1970 in the DRC.<\/p>\n It has since been mainly limited to certain West and Central African nations, with people mainly catching it from infected animals, such as when eating bush meat.<\/p>\n The common symptoms include skin rash and mucosal lesions which can take at least 2-4 weeks, accompanied by fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, low energy, and swollen lymph nodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By William Madouk The Northern Bahr el Ghaza State Ministry of Health has said three suspected Hepatitis E and two monkeypox cases have been detected in Aweil. Addressing the media, Dr. Riiny Riiny Lual, state minister of health said they have collected a sample of suspected cases of Hepatitis[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news","category-northern-bahr-el-ghazal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/One-of-the-patients-whose-sample-was-sent-for-further-investigation.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27404,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27402\/revisions\/27404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}