Relationships between sleep paralysis and sleep quality: current insights. False awakenings in light of the dream protoconsciousness theory: a study in lucid dreamers. My dream, my rules: can lucid dreaming treat nightmares? Front Psychol. Philadelphia: Saunders 2011.ĭe Macêdo TCF, Ferreira GH, De Almondes KM, Kirov R, Mota-Rolim SA. In: Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine (5th Edition). Idiopathic nightmares and dream disturbances associated with sleep-wake transitions. "It enormously complicates search and follow-up of infected people."Īnother worry is for the safety of health workers - "the police and army are providing night-and-day security" for them, said North Kivu's governor, Ephrem Kasereka.Nielsen T, Zadra A. In North Kivu, "people are moving around all the time, fleeing the latest wave of violence," she said. Hanna Leskinen of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said the grassroots work in combating Ebola lies in locating and treating patients and isolating people who have been in contact with them.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, also warned that conflict had helped create "a conducive environment for the transmission" of Ebola. Health experts have long fretted about the problems of combating Ebola in the DRC, a vast country that is poor and unstable and shares boundaries with nine countries. I've got two children and I don't how I can feed them." I've heard that even the sweat of someone who is infected can contaminate us. "Customers have started to think twice about getting on the motorbike for fear of contamination."Įlodie Zena, a 28-year-old sex worker, said, "Business has dropped off - customers are afraid. "I wear gloves to protect me from the epidemic," said Jonas Mumbere, 26, who drives a motorcycle taxi. In Mangina, located 30 kilometres (18 miles) southwest of the city of Beni, suspicion and rumour seem to have spread across the population.Ĭontainers of chlorinated water have been installed in front of all shops and in the markets to provide rudimentary hand protection. The disease is caused by a virus that is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads among humans through close contact with the blood, body fluids, secretions or organs of an infected person. The outbreak - the country's 10th since the disease was discovered in then-Zaire in 1976 - was announced just a week after the end of an Ebola flare-up in north-western Equateur province that claimed 33 lives.Įbola causes serious illness including vomiting, diarrhoea and in some cases internal and external bleeding. The Congolese health ministry said Wednesday the death toll in the east had reached 42 out of 66 probable and confirmed cases.
"The ADF's on one side, and Ebola on the other." "We are caught between the hammer and the anvil," he sighed. Pascal Lukula, a 38-year-old farmer with five children, said he was stuck in Mangina, unable to get to other members of his family, because of the encroaching militia. "I went to my elder sister, but she has died of Ebola and her husband is being quarantined at the treatment centre. "I fled here from Kokola, where the ADF were committing atrocities," said Pascaline Fitina, a 36-year-old woman, sitting alone, her head in her hands. On August 1, Beni declared an outbreak of Ebola epicentred in Mangina - a small town that had been a relative haven from the fighting - where six members of the same family died of the disease. The region is haunted in particular by the Allied Defence Forces (ADF), a Ugandan Islamist rebel group blamed for hundreds of civilian deaths over the past four years. In the Beni region, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern province of Kivu, the twin peril has bred fear and despair. Now Ebola, a name almost as dreaded as death itself, has come. Ebola causes serious illness including vomiting, diarrhoea and in some cases internal and external bleeding.įirst came the war, which developed into a brutal, bloody tussle between militias who abused civilians or killed them.The Congolese health ministry said Wednesday the death toll in the east had reached 42 out of 66 probable and confirmed cases.On August 1, Beni declared an outbreak of Ebola epicentred in Mangina.
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