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Experts call for WHO emergency declaration on Congo's Ebola epidemic
An international group of public health experts have called on The World Health Organization to convene an emergency committee and consider declaring Congo's Ebola outbreak an international public health emergency. The group of experts wrote in the Lancet Monday that such a call would help ...
U.S. doctor who survived Ebola honored for service in Liberia
Almost five years have passed since he nearly died of Ebola in Liberia, but Richard Sacra has never wavered from his commitment to the struggling West African nation. The 56-year-old family doctor from Massachusetts was among a handful of Americans treated and cured of Ebola ...
In 'unexpected' gender role twist, Congo Ebola outbreak hits more women as they head households
About two-thirds of patients in Congo's latest Ebola outbreak have been women, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, calling for more focus on gender in disease control and prevention. The outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is the world's second-largest and has infected ...
The death toll from the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed the 400 mark in the east and northeast, health authorities said Tuesday. "Since the start of the epidemic, the total number of cases is 658 — 609 confirmed ...
Patients flee after Ebola holding center is attacked by election-delay protesters in Congo
Patients being monitored as possible Ebola patients fled a camp in eastern DR Congo on Thursday after it was attacked by demonstrators protesting further delays to the country's election, the health ministry said. Around 20 patients fled the center during the incident, at a holding ...
Voters in three Congolese cities known as anti-government strongholds will be excluded from Sunday's presidential elections on security and health grounds, officials said, prompting calls for protests from angry opposition leaders. Electoral commission CENI said an Ebola outbreak was behind the cancellation of the ballot ...
On high alert for Ebola, bustling Ugandan border town braces for influx from Congo
Stormwater from the peaks of the Rwenzori Mountains swells the muddy Lhubiriha River that marks the often porous border between western Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Less than 70 km (40 miles) away, authorities have already confirmed one case of Ebola, part of ...
Struggling Sierra Leone's sick go untreated amid paralyzing strike by doctors
Seven-year-old Carlos Kamara needs urgent surgery on a collapsed lung after he swallowed a toy whistle. Instead, all he can do is lie in pain in a half-empty hospital ward waiting to be seen. A doctors' strike in Sierra Leone has paralyzed an already threadbare ...
Deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo puts South Sudan on high alert: U.N.
The United Nations and South Sudan are taking extreme precautions to prevent any spread of Ebola from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, which is battling the second-biggest ever outbreak of the disease. The U.N. and local authorities have made "a huge number of preparatory steps," ...
Uganda vaccinates thousands of health workers against Ebola, fearing spread from Congo
Uganda has vaccinated thousands of health workers against Ebola to counter the spread of the deadly virus from its neighbor Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministers of both countries said Wednesday. A growing outbreak of Ebola in the Beni region of eastern DR Congo, ...
Health workers on Wednesday launched a door-to-door, four-day blitz to control malaria in Democratic Republic of Congo with the aim of cutting suspected Ebola cases in half. "It will make things a lot easier if malaria is taken out of the equation," Stefan Hoyer of ...
Congo Ebola response efforts resume in Beni after clashes: WHO
Efforts to fight a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo's restive eastern Beni region have resumed after a brief suspension following clashes, the World Health Organization said Sunday. "On Sunday, all activities have re-launched, including vaccination," the UN health agency said in ...
