Ebola

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is battling a fresh Ebola outbreak, with health authorities confirming 11 new infections in the Bulape Health Zone of Kasai Province. As of September …

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that two recent suspected cases of viral hemorrhagic fever in Abuja have tested negative for both Ebola Virus Disease and …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has started rolling out Ebola vaccinations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following the country’s first outbreak of the virus in three years. …

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are struggling to contain a new Ebola outbreak in the country’s southern Kasai province, the first to hit the region in almost …

The Federal Government said it had intensified monitoring and screening procedures at all points of entry in response to the ongoing outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic …

The announcement by the country’s health ministry came after the passage of 42 days without a single case of the disease. “During this outbreak, 14 cases, 12 confirmed and two …

Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week, Africa’s top public health agency said Thursday, with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease. Three …

Uganda began a vaccine trial Monday against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus …

Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has issued a travel advisory urging citizens to avoid non-essential travel to countries with confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), particularly Uganda, where …

Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, a top health official said Sunday. A …