Israeli flight attendant dies after contracting measles on jet from New York
An Israeli flight attendant has died months after contracting measles on a flight from New York to Tel Aviv, Israel's health ministry and local media said Wednesday. Rotem Amitai, 43, and a mother of three, was hospitalized in March following the flight with Israeli airline ...
Scientists hail promise of first effective Ebola treatments in Congo trial
Scientists are a step closer to finding the first effective treatments for the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever after two potential drugs showed encouraging survival results in a clinical trial in Congo. Two experimental drugs — Regeneron's REGN-EB3 and a monoclonal antibody called mAb114 — were ...
1,800 dead as malaria 'epidemic' rages in Burundi, U.N. says
Malaria has killed more than 1,800 people in Burundi this year, the U.N.'s humanitarian agency says, a death toll rivaling a deadly Ebola outbreak in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. In its latest situation report, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...
1-year-old daughter, wife of Congo's Goma victim have Ebola; Rwanda briefly closes border
The 1-year-old daughter and the wife of the man who died of Ebola in Congo's city of Goma this week have tested positive for the disease, health officials confirmed Thursday, while Rwanda briefly closed its border with Congo over the virus outbreak that now ...
Second person dies from Ebola in Congo's city of Goma, and he may not have known he had the virus
The man who became the second confirmed Ebola case in Congo's major crossroads city of Goma has died, officials said Wednesday, adding that he may never have known he had the virus. The case renewed fears in the bustling city on the Rwandan border that ...
Congo officials confirm second Ebola case in city of Goma, but see no link to first victim
Officials in Congo on Tuesday said a second Ebola case had been confirmed in Goma, the city of more than 2 million people whose first confirmed case in this yearlong outbreak was reported earlier in July. There appeared to be no link between the man's ...
Until his last breath, Salomon Nduhi Kambale insisted he had been poisoned by someone and that was the reason he was vomiting blood. The 30-year-old man wouldn't give community health teams his phone number, and when they found it, he hung up on them. Health ...
World Bank deploys $300 million more to Congo to contain Ebola outbreak
The World Bank announced Wednesday it was deploying another $300 million in crisis aid for DR Congo to help contain the Ebola outbreak. The grants and credits come after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the current outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, ...
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 ...
Yemen's warring sides meet on Hodeida for first time in months
Representatives from Yemen's government and Houthi rebels tasked with pulling forces out of the key port city of Hodeida met Sunday for the first time in five months. The redeployment from Hodeida is a critical part of a cease-fire deal reached in December in Sweden ...
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 ...
Over million new cases daily: WHO alarmed at STD spread in era of dating apps
The World Health Organization expressed alarm Thursday at the lack of progress on curbing sexually transmitted diseases, while one of its experts warned of complacency as dating apps are spurring sexual activity. The U.N. health agency said in a fresh report that every day globally ...
