Ebola

The latest outbreak of the Ebola disease in Congo has officially been declared over, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Who Health Organisation said, the outbreak affected the north western Équateur province, with the…

A new case of Ebola haemorrhagic fever has been confirmed in the north-western Democratic Republic of Congo. The case was detected in a 31-year-old male in Mbandaka city, the capital of Congo’s Equateur province. The World Health…

Congolese officials announced an end to an Ebola outbreak that had killed at least six people since October in the latest health challenge confronting the country's restive east. The most recent outbreak erupted in North Kivu province,…

Vaccination against the deadly Ebola disease began in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Beni, the WHO said, five days after reports of a new case. The fresh case was reported in North Kivu, the same province where the…

Residents in the town of Beni (in North Kivu province) are concerned about the spread of the deadly Ebola virus after the death of a three-year-old boy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, five months after the African nation's outbreak of…

The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has announced that a new case of Ebola has been detected in the health zone of Butsili in North Kivu Province, where a previous outbreak was declared over on May 3, 2021.…

The UN health agency said on Tuesday that a second suspected case of infection by the deadly Ebola virus has been detected in Ivory Coast, expressing fear of contagion. READ ALSO: Ivory Coast detects first case of Ebola in…

Ivory Coast has declared a first case of the Ebola hemorrhagic virus in 25 years, the health minister and the World Health Organization (WHO) said separately on Saturday. READ ALSO: WHO declares end to second Ebola outbreak in…

Vaccination against the Ebola hemorrhagic fever was launched in Guinea, more than a week after the resurgence of the virus in a country. The campaign began after more than 11,000 doses of vaccines from the World Health Organization (WHO)…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has alerted six African countries to watch out for potential cases of Ebola after it emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea. The DRC declared the emergence of Ebola on 7th February…