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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…
A deadly surge in Lassa fever infections is overwhelming local containment efforts across Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that total fatalities from the viral outbreak have climbed to 214 this year. More troubling than the raw death toll is a soaring case fatality rate, which has reached a grim 25…
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…
African governments and international development partners have pledged approximately $498.8 million to strengthen response operations against the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola Virus outbreak, even as the World Health Organisation warns that the epidemic is currently outpacing containment efforts across the continent. The figure was disclosed by Jean Kaseya, Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease…
United Nations agencies have mounted an urgent emergency response to a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, mobilising medical supplies, logistics support, and personnel across multiple affected provinces as the death toll climbs and the virus threatens to breach more urban centres. UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric disclosed the scale…
The World Health Organisation has assessed the risk of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s escalating Ebola outbreak as high at both national and regional levels, even as the United Nations health agency stopped short of declaring it a global pandemic emergency. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the assessment public on Wednesday, confirming…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has activated emergency border surveillance following an Ebola outbreak in Central Africa. Health officials confirmed that while Nigeria has no recorded cases, the rapid international spread of the virus requires immediate defensive measures. The containment drive follows the decision by the World Health Organisation to declare the…