Category : Ebola

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Health officials have confirmed a second Ebola outbreak in Congo, the head of the World Health Organization said Monday, adding yet another health crisis for a country already battling COVID-19 and the world’s largest measles outbreak. Congo also has yet to declare an official end to Ebola in its troubled east, […]Read More

Dr. Craig Spencer famously survived Ebola virus after working to save patients during an outbreak in Africa. Now, as he battles a new pandemic in New York each day, he says he fears the new coronavirus. Spencer is an emergency room doctor, epidemiologist and director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University […]Read More

GENEVA — The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday after the virus spread this week to a city of two million people. A WHO expert committee had declined on three previous occasions to advise the United Nations health agency to make the declaration […]Read More

Citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo, site of an expanding Ebola outbreak, are set to hear the results of their long-delayed presidential election on Sunday. Violence and instability in the lead-up to the Dec. 30 voting has already interrupted efforts to rein in what is the second-largest Ebola outbreak ever. Now global health leaders […]Read More

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the second largest in history, according to figures from the World Health Organization. Since the outbreak was declared Aug. 1, 426 people are suspected or confirmed to have been infected with the deadly hemorrhagic virus, which has killed at least 242. “It’s a tragedy because […]Read More

WASHINGTON ― Global public health experts are growing increasingly alarmed about the Ebola outbreak in the northeast region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has killed 215 people so far. It is now the largest outbreak that the DRC has ever seen ― with 341 probable and confirmed cases ― and the third largest […]Read More

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak is the worst in the country’s recorded history with 319 confirmed and probable cases, the health ministry said. The deadly virus has killed more than 190 people since the outbreak was declared Aug. 1 in the volatile east. Those dead include 163 confirmed Ebola cases. Nearly 100 people […]Read More

It’s déjà vu, except this time, the divisive, false and fear-stoking rhetoric is coming from the president of the United States ― not just a fringe potential candidate. In November 2014, my birth country of Liberia endured a devastating Ebola epidemic. The virus, which is transmitted through touch and contact with those infected, ripped through […]Read More

The World Health Organization on Wednesday decided not to declare the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the war-torn northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo an international health emergency. This Ebola outbreak, the seventh largest in history, with 216 cases and 139 dead since July, has seen a sharp uptick in cases in the last […]Read More

After a surge of 27 additional Ebola cases in the last five days in the Democratic Republic of Congo, global health leaders are growing increasingly concerned that the deadly outbreak could spread beyond their reach. Experts are blaming the sharp jump in cases ― which had previously slowed to about 10 a week ― on an uptick […]Read More