WHO declares int’l emergency as Ebola outbreak kills 80 in Congo
- 17-May-2026
An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 80 as authorities warned there was no vaccine for the strain in a crisis that the World Health Organization declared an international health emergency on Sunday. A total of 88 deaths and 336 suspected cases of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever have […]
Uganda confirms Ebola outbreak in capital Kampala
- 31-Jan-2025
Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday. It is the East African country’s ninth outbreak since it recorded its first infection of the viral disease in 2000. The patient, a male nurse at […]
High-risk health workers can get routine Ebola vaccine
- 13-Jun-2024
A global stockpile of Ebola vaccines can be used to protect frontline health workers in high-risk countries routinely, rather than just as an emergency measure during outbreaks, international vaccine group Gavi said on Thursday. A stockpile of half-a-million Ebola vaccine doses was established by Gavi and other global health partners in 2019 for use in […]
Ebola kills doctor in Uganda
- 01-Oct-2022
A Tanzanian doctor working in Uganda who contracted Ebola has died, the first health worker killed by the disease in the latest outbreak in the country, Uganda’s health minister said on Saturday. “I regret to announce that we have lost our first doctor, Dr. Mohammed Ali, a Tanzanian national, 37-year-old Male,” the health minister, Jane […]
WHO sees Ebola risk as “very high”
- 05-Mar-2021
WHO’s Guinea representative, Georges Alfred Ki-Zerbo, told a virtual briefing that 18 cases had been identified and four of those people had died
WHO alerts six countries after Ebola outbreaks
- 16-Feb-2021
World Health Organization has alerted six countries to watch out for potential Ebola cases after fresh outbreaks in Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo
Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak, sees lessons for COVID fight
- 18-Nov-2020
Congo announced the end of an almost six-month Ebola outbreak in the west of the country as health authorities looked to apply lessons from the successful response to the fight against COVID-19
Fatal attacks on clinics risk resurgence of Ebola epidemic
- 30-Nov-2019
The world’s second biggest Ebola epidemic on record has killed over 2,200 people since mid-2018, but new infections slowed in recent months
Rollout of Ebola vaccine begins in Congo
- 14-Nov-2019
The new vaccine, which has passed clinical trials but has never been tested in a real-world setting, will be administered to 50,000 people in Goma
Anti-Ebola radio in DR Congo closes down after killing
- 11-Nov-2019
A local radio station that has been involved in the fight against Ebola in eastern DR Congo said Monday it was closing down after one of its broadcasters was murdered