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Why mpox vaccines, in use since 2022, are only just arriving in Africa?

August 24, 2024

In a repurposed Ebola treatment center near Goma in eastern Congo, Elisabeth Furaha gently applies ointment to her seven-year-old son Sagesse Hakizimana's rash-covered body.

Thailand’s public health centres keeping a close watch on Ebola-like virus

February 16, 2023

Public health centres all around the nation have been warned to keep an eye on the potential spread of the Marburg virus, which belongs to the same family as Ebola, said Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Department of Disease Control.

Suvarnabhumi screening arrivals from DR Congo for Ebola

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2022

Suvarnabhumi Airport has begun screening arrivals from DR Congo for symptoms of Ebola after the deadly virus began spreading from neighbouring Uganda.

Guinea declares Ebola epidemic after seven cases and four deaths

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2021

DAKAR, Senegal - Public health officials in Guinea declared a new epidemic of Ebola on Sunday after recording seven cases and three deaths - the first resurgence since the hemorrhagic fever devastated the West African nation and two neighbors from 2014 to 2016.

WHO adopts test method that helped stifle Ebola for Coronavirus

THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2020

The World Health Organization is taking the drug-testing approach that helped stifle Ebola's latest resurgence and using it against the new coronavirus.

How new coronavirus differs from SARS, measles and Ebola

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2020

Global health officials have almost as many questions as answers about the mysterious, pneumonia-like virus that originated in China last month and has spread to at least five other countries, including the United States. How exactly is it transmitted? How infectious is it and, most critically, how deadly?

Ebola worker shot dead at hospital in eastern DR Congo

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2019

A health worker fighting an Ebola outbreak in DR Congo was shot dead Friday in an attack on a hospital in the eastern city of Butembo, the World Health Organization said.

WHO launches strategy to fight 'inevitable' flu pandemics

MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2019

The World Health Organization on Monday launched a strategy to protect people worldwide over the next decade against the threat of influenza, warning that new pandemics are "inevitable".

Ebola death toll in DR Congo rises to 55

MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2018

The Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo has claimed 55 lives since the start of the month, the authorities said Monday, as the government announced free treatment against the disease for the next three months.

Ebola infects woman's husband, sons, a year after she recovered: study

MONDAY, JULY 23, 2018

A woman who survived Ebola in July 2014 may have infected her husband and two sons more than a year later, said a study Tuesday, highlighting the need for "continued surveillance".

WHO predicts Ebola outbreak in DR Congo could end soon

SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2018

The director general of the World Health said Sunday he believed a swift end could be put to the outbreak of Ebola in northwestern DR Congo, some 21 days which has left 27 people dead over the past month.

DRCongo prepares for first Ebola vaccinations

SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2018

The Democratic Republic of Congo is preparing to launch an Ebola vaccination programme Monday in a bid to stop the latest outbreak of the dreaded fatal disease from spreading.

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