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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…
At least 80 persons have died from a fresh Ebola outbreak spreading across three health zones in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including Bunia, Rwampara and Mongbwalu, according to data released by the World Health Organisation on Sunday. The outbreak, designated the 17th in Congo since the virus was first identified there in 1976,…
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…
Spain has insisted it took every necessary precaution to prevent the spread of hantavirus from a cruise ship at the centre of an international health alert, even as authorities in France and the United States confirmed positive cases among evacuated passengers. The Spanish health ministry said in a statement that “from the start, all…
A special repatriation flight carrying 20 British nationals evacuated from a hantavirus-struck cruise ship landed at Manchester Airport on Sunday, bringing home passengers caught in one of the most unusual public health emergencies to affect a civilian vessel in recent memory. Television footage showed the aircraft touching down at the northwest England airport after…
