The West African state of Ivory Coast was spared Ebola for many years. An infection has now been registered.
The West African state of Ivory Coast has started a vaccination campaign against the life-threatening Ebola virus after a first case was registered over the weekend.
The Ministry of Health has received 5,000 doses of vaccine and will first vaccinate health workers and emergency workers, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
According to the health organization of the African Union (Africa CDC), the infected person is an 18-year-old who traveled by land from Labé in Guinea to the economic metropolis of Abidjan and treated there in hospital on August 12 after a fever attack had been.
It is the first Ebola case in the former French colony since 1994, according to the WHO. So far there has been another suspected case and nine contacts that are under observation.
Guinea had only declared itself ebola-free on June 19. Twelve people had died there from the virus disease since February 14.
According to official statistics, 28,000 people were infected in an Ebola outbreak in West Africa between 2014 and 2016 in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and more than 11,000 died. In the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an outbreak with around 2,300 deaths was declared over in June 2020 after almost two years.
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