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TL;DR: This report describes the first reported outbreak of human monkeypox in the Republic of Congo, with up to six sequential transmissions of monkeypox virus from person to person hypothesized to have occurred, making this the longest uninterrupted chain of humanmonkeypox fully documented to date.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates the usefulness of oral fluid samples for the investigation of Ebola outbreaks, but further development in antibodies and antigen detection in oral fluid specimens is needed before these samples are used for filovirus surveillance activities in Africa.

TL;DR: This article describes the last Ebola haemorrhagic fever outbreak that occurred in the Cuvette Ouest Region of the Republic of Congo from January to April 2003, when the Minister of Health and Population of the Congo Republic officially declared that the outbreak was over.

TL;DR: Le 5 juin, le Ministre de la Sante and of the Population du gouvernement of the Republique du Congo, a solennellement declare la fin of l'epidemie de fievre hemorragique a virus Ebola dans le Departement de the Cuvette Ouest.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed epidemiological surveillance approaches used during Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever epidemics in Africa in the past fifteen years and analyzed surveillance approaches, route of introduction of the virus into the population (urban and rural), the collaboration between the human health sector and the wildlife sector and factors that have affected epidemic management.