#Ebola

Jean Kaseya, of the Africa CDC, warns of the illness spreading like Covid unless more funding is secured to increase preparedness and possible treatment

DR Congo has reported more than 10,000 Ebola cases and nearly 4,900 deaths. The outbreak involves a virus for which there is no approved vaccine or specific treatment, complicating efforts to contain its spread.

The current outbreak, first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has now counted 10,000 patients and has spread with great speed. How can it be stopped?

The UN’s Ebola coordinator and the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) have deplored the killing of a nurse working to halt the spread of the disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Nigerian authorities continued monitoring 52 people who had been in contact with the woman, while Switzerland will take over her care

The World Health Organization reports that a nurse has been killed and a health worker severely injured in an attack while responding to an Ebola alert in Congo

The World Health Organization reports that a nurse has been killed and a health worker severely injured in an attack while responding to an Ebola alert in Congo.

Kampala says country is Ebola free, but Swiss authorities believe a woman diagnosed in Nigeria was infected in Uganda.

Uganda is reinforcing existing border controls requiring citizens returning from Congo to undergo 21 days of quarantine at their own expense, the Health Ministry said Sunday, as investigators examine how a woman who traveled from Uganda to Nigeria…

Kenyan health officials said the 65-year-old ​woman was a close ‌relative of a ‌​man who died of Ebola last month. The woman developed symptoms ‌while under quarantine in Nairobi.

Kenya has reported a second death from Ebola, a 65-year-old woman who was a close family member of the index case.

The Ebola outbreak has now spread to four countries across eastern, central ⁠⁠and western Africa.

Switzerland says patient is wife of Swiss diplomat and believed to have contracted virus while travelling in Uganda

As Ebola continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), more resources are needed to fight the disease and feed patients and families, UN agencies said on Friday.

Health officials are investigating whether Ebola patients in Kenya and Nigeria crossed paths at Uganda's main airport as conflicting accounts cloud the source of one infection.

Nigeria this week recorded its first case of Ebola in the current outbreak, which has spread from the epicenter in Congo to several other African countries.

Nigeria, the continent’s most populous nation, is the fourth African country affected by the outbreak.

Health officials are urgently seeking answers about the origins of a case newly identified in Nigeria, the first in that West African nation.