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The Democratic Republic of the Congo faces the second-largest Ebola outbreak in recorded history as official cases surpass 4,400 with over 2,000 dead. International health authorities warn the epidemic is moving faster than any previous wave of the virus. The World Health Organisation admits response teams are playing catch-up against unidentified transmission chains. Deep aid…
Frontline medical personnel fighting the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have gone on strike over months of unpaid salaries. Healthcare workers across eastern provinces, including the epicentre in Ituri, warn that administrative neglect threatens containment efforts. The nation is currently battling its seventeenth recorded Ebola epidemic, which has already claimed over…
The doctors and nurses standing between Ebola and the population of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are now fighting on two fronts, one against a virus with no cure and another against a government that has not paid them since the outbreak began. At the Ebola treatment centre in Rwampara, one of the worst…
The Ebola outbreak tearing through the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has now killed 600 people, a grim figure released by the World Health Organisation on Thursday that lays bare how quickly the virus is spreading despite an intensifying containment effort. What alarms health officials most is the pace: the death toll crossed 500 only…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has begun testing two experimental therapies against the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola driving a deadly outbreak in its northeast, the World Health Organisation announced on Thursday, marking a critical turn in a response that has struggled to keep pace with the spread of the virus. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom…
The head of the World Health Organisation visited Uganda this week as a deadly Ebola outbreak that crossed in from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo continued to spread, with both countries now recording a sharp rise in confirmed infections and deaths. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the trip after the global health…
More than 1,100 people are suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus across the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring Uganda, the African Union’s continental health agency has confirmed, raising fears that the outbreak could escalate rapidly across central and east Africa. In a commentary published in the Financial Times on Sunday, the Director…
A rapidly accelerating Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has crossed an alarming threshold, with suspected infections now exceeding nine hundred. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirmed that surveillance teams have identified nine hundred and four suspected cases across the country. The official tally includes one hundred and one laboratory-confirmed infections….
Nigeria’s Immigration Service has moved to reassure the public that the country’s land borders pose no unchecked risk of Ebola entry, even as the World Health Organisation places the rapidly expanding outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda under its highest international alert status. The Nigeria Immigration Service spokesperson, Akinsola Akinlabi,…
Health authorities across Africa have confirmed a new Ebola virus disease outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, raising fresh alarms over cross-border transmission risks as regional governments scramble to contain the spread. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Africa) announced the outbreak on Friday, confirming it had struck Ituri…