Ebola outbreak

The United Nations’ health agency has raised its national-level risk assessment for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from “high” to “very high” amid the ongoing Ebola outbreak, although the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to…
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In Mongbwalu, a gold-mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, residents are grappling with a fast-moving Ebola outbreak that has fuelled both fear and denial in one of the country’s most conflict-affected…
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The head of the World Health Organization on Friday warned that the Ebola outbreak in Congo is “spreading rapidly,” prompting the agency to raise its national risk assessment to “very high” from “high.” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom…
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The Trump administration has imposed a temporary US entry ban on foreign travellers who have recently visited three African countries amid a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak. Under an order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and…
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The World Health Organization on Sunday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern”. The WHO said the outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, does…
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The United States sent Gilead Sciences' remdesivir and Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc's experimental Ebola antibody drug MBP134 to Uganda last week to help safeguard healthcare workers responding to an outbreak that has infected 60 people and…
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