Source: World Health Organization
Country: Angola
I. Key Highlights
- Two million four hundred thousand (2.4 million) doses of yellow fever vaccine received in Angola on the 12 May 2016 - Angola will be vaccinating additional 2.6 million people in 16 districts from 5 provinces starting Sunday 15 May 2016 - Four new districts reported confirmed cases, making a total of 72 districts in 14 provinces - Preliminarily analysis conducted by the IPD (Pasteur Institute Dakar) on yellow fever samples collected during the current epidemic revealed that the circulating virus strain is closely related to the virus strain identified in the 1971 outbreak in Angola - Vaccination is now been carried out in the Provinces (and districts) of : Cuanza Sul (Ebo, Cassonge, Seles, Libolo, Amboim), Benguela (Baia Farta, Balombo, Benguela, Cubal), Huila (Quipungo, Caconda), Uí ge (Negage, Uí ge), Huambo ( (Bailundo, Ekunha e Ukuma).
II. Epidemiological Situation as of 15 May 2016
- A cumulative total of 2,420 suspected cases with 298 deaths have been reported, of which 736 were confirmed cases including 96 confirmed deaths.
- Of the 736 confirmed cases, 459 (62.4%) were from Luanda province, while the remaining 277 (37.6%) were from other provinces. Seventy two (72) districts have laboratory confirmed cases in 14 provinces out of the 18 provinces in the country.
- A total of 47 confirmed cases of local transmission have been identified from 20 districts in 6 provinces, not including Luanda (see Table 3).
- The majority of the cases are among age group 15-29 yrs. Seventy percent (70%) of the reported cases are male.