Congolese soldiers and police will enforce hand-washing and fever checks now that the deadly Ebola outbreak has been declared an international health emergency , authorities said Thursday. Soldiers and police will "force" people who resist taking the key steps to help contain the disease that ...
The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday after the virus spread this week to a city of 2 million people . A WHO expert committee had declined on three previous occasions to advise ...
First Ebola patient in Congo city of Goma, a traveling preacher, has died: governor
The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma has died, the governor of North Kivu province said on Tuesday. The case — the first in a major urban hub in the region's nearly year-old epidemic of the ...
WHO raises alarm as Congo traces contacts of first Ebola case in eastern city of Goma
After feeling sick for several days the pastor boarded a bus to eastern Congo's largest city. Only upon arrival at his destination did anyone suspect he had the highly deadly and infectious Ebola virus. During his trip to Goma, the 46-year-old preacher managed to pass ...
Congo confirms first Ebola case in city of Goma on border with Rwanda
The Congolese health ministry confirmed an Ebola case in Goma late Sunday, marking the first time the virus has reached the city of more than 2 million people along the border with Rwanda since the epidemic began nearly a year ago. The health ministry said ...
DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi described bloodshed in a volatile northeastern province as an "attempted genocide" Tuesday, after a wave of violence that has killed scores of civilians and forced tens of thousands from their homes in less than a month. Tshisekedi has ordered the ...
Thousands fleeing Congo violence, seeking asylum in Uganda, U.N. says
About 7,500 Congolese fleeing violence have arrived in Uganda since the beginning of June, the United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday, urging the international community to give more toward humanitarian efforts. People are leaving Congo at a rate of 311 a day, adding pressure on ...
Driver with Ebola response team severely injured by Congo mob
A driver working with an Ebola response team is in critical condition after angry crowds hurled rocks at him and set his vehicle on fire. Monday's attack in Beni is the latest against health workers trying to combat the virus that has killed more than ...
Machete-wielding attackers descended on Esther Nzale's village in northeastern Congo eight days ago around noon, setting houses on fire and hacking to death her husband and others. "Some people were burned alive inside the houses," Nzale said from a camp for displaced persons more than ...
WHO panel decides not to declare an international Ebola emergency, citing economic harm
A World Health Organization panel decided on Friday not to declare an international emergency over Congo's Ebola outbreak despite its spread to Uganda earlier in the week, concluding such a declaration could cause too much economic harm. Congo's epidemic is the second-worst ever, with 2,108 ...
Half of all outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus never get detected, researchers said Thursday, as Uganda confirmed a second death from the disease that has claimed hundreds of lives in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Ebola, which spreads among humans through contact with bodily ...
Ebola claims two in Uganda as virus spreads from Congo, prompting WHO emergency meeting
A second person infected with the Ebola virus has died in Uganda, the health ministry said Thursday, after a family exposed to the disease quietly crossed the border from Congo. The first cross-border cases in this Ebola outbreak — the second-deadliest in history — have ...
