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Uganda is grappling with a new Ebola outbreak, marking its sixth detection of the virus, which comes just as a mystery disease is causing growing concern in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A four-year-old child has become the second fatality linked to the Sudan Ebola strain following confirmation of the virus at Mulago […]
Inside Kampala’s bustling medical district, scientists are racing against time to deploy an experimental vaccine following a nurse’s death from the Sudan strain of Ebola. This development marks a critical moment in Uganda’s ongoing battle against the virus, which has repeatedly tested the nation’s healthcare system. The Uganda Virus Research Institute stands at the forefront […]
The restricted approach by the World Health Organization (WHO) in dealing with the misconduct of its staffers during an Ebola outbreak in Congo has been dismissed as “an absurdity”, two experts appointed by the UN agency to investigate allegations that some of its staffers sexually abused women in the African country. In October 2020, Aichatou […]
Equatorial Guinea has announced its first outbreak of the Marburg virus, a hemorrhagic fever nearly as deadly as Ebola, the World Health Organization (WTO) confirmed 13 February. Nine people have died of Marburg virus disease in Equatorial Guinea, a small central African country of about 1.6 million. A health alert had been declared in Kie-Ntem […]
Uganda has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicenter of the country’s Ebola outbreak by 21 days, with the government asserting its response to the disease was succeeding. The extension is “to further sustain the gains in control of Ebola that we have made, and to protect the rest of the […]
A three-week lockdown has been imposed in Uganda’s two central region districts to curb the spread of Ebola, which has killed 19 people since the first death nearly a month ago. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced on Saturday (15 October) he has ordered the lockdown to restrict movements into and out of Mubende and Kassanda, […]
The new Ebola outbreak in Uganda has killed 19 people while five medical staff members that contracted the virus have recovered and been discharged from an isolation unit, the Ministry of Health in Kampala said Tuesday (11 October). According to the country’s health minister Jane Ruth Aceng, five affected districts have seen “54 cumulative confirmed […]
The 15th outbreak of Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) comes to an end as neighboring Uganda races to tackle a virus outbreak of its own, the World Health Organization (WTO) has said. A week after health officials in Uganda declared an outbreak of Ebola, the highly contagious strain of the deadly […]
Two days after announcing an outbreak of Ebola, Uganda has confirmed seven cases of the contagious disease, as authorities try to track down 43 contacts of known Ebola patients The authorities in the East African country are also investigating seven other deaths as suspected cases of a strain for which they do not have a […]
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres who started Saturday a three-day visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo promised that the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Congo (MONUSCO) would continue to support the Congolese army against armed groups. At a press conference in Beni, on the second day of his visit to the DRC, António Guterres […]