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She can represent Kinshasa, but a president missing high-level bilateral meetings can affect negotiations over cross-border coordination, funding, and the outbreak response itself.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC, is dispatching two epidemiologists to the heart of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC.

The deployment, announced on Monday, aims to bolster surveillance and the overall response to the epidemic, according to ECDC chief Pamela Rendy-Wagner.

European Pulse reports more than 7,600 confirmed infections and over 3,670 deaths, nearly 80% of those confirmed cases in Ituri.

That's where the Irvibo clinical trials have begun and where ECDC is sending two epidemiologists.

Two epidemiologists for an epicenter carrying nearly four out of five cases.

I'm glad they're going, but bolster surveillance needs to mean more than two very capable people arriving at a very large emergency.

Community protection depends on the surveillance and delivery system around it.

I mean, also part of the issue is that you might have a couple of RCTs coming on in a particular space and the guideline was written the previous year and it's on an eight-yearly cycle before people get around or actually forget the painful process of producing the last guideline and then go and do it again.

I mean, is there now a case, because I've heard that ECDC are looking at living guidelines and you certainly had that fantastic living guideline in Australia during COVID.

The task force was brilliant.

you know is there now a case for a living guideline and as soon as rcts come out you know the evidence base has shifted this is something we can't wait because you know i can remember a paper from gonzalo behman looking at the cost of actual procrastination and and the cost of delay of implementing research was significant for every six months there were more bloodstream infections until

ECDC on Air.

The podcast of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.

Hello and welcome to ECDC on Air.

In today's RiskWire episode, we will talk about gonorrhea, one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases worldwide.

More specifically, we are going to talk about Neisseria gonorrhea, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea infection.

and we will hear about what it means when the bacterium does not respond to recommended antibiotic treatment.

According to an ECDC risk assessment, several European countries have observed a surge in such drug-resistant strains.