The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned doctors in an update on Thursday that they should be aware of growing outbreaks of the highly fatal Marburg virus in Africa and will start communicating with travelers to the United States to watch for symptoms. Like Ebola, Marburg virus disease (MVD) is a a rare but severe […]
Three people in an isolation unit of Uganda’s main hospital have tested positive for Ebola, the country’s health minister said on Saturday. “Yesterday … three individuals from among the 60 in our Mulago isolation facility tested positive for Ebola,” Jane Ruth Aceng said on Twitter. “They will be transferred to the Entebbe Isolation for treatment […]
KINSHASA—Democratic Republic of Congo has declared the end of its latest Ebola virus outbreak in the eastern province of North Kivu, Health Minister Jean-Jacques Mbungani Mbanda said in a statement on Tuesday. The fifteenth outbreak in the central African country emerged when a new case of the deadly virus was confirmed in the eastern city […]
KAMPALA—Three more Ebola patients have died in Uganda, the health ministry said on Friday, bringing the total death toll to four, days after authorities confirmed an outbreak of a strain of the deadly disease. Uganda’s health ministry said it had confirmed 11 cases of Ebola in total, including the four deaths. The current outbreak, attributed […]
NAIROBI, Kenya—A second Ebola patient has died in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, days into a fresh outbreak of the deadly disease. Genetic testing showed an infection confirmed last week in the city of Mbandaka was a new “spillover event”, a transmission from an infected animal, and […]
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo—A case of Ebola has been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the health minister said on Friday, five months after the end of the most recent outbreak there. It was not immediately known if the case was related to the 2018–2020 outbreak that killed more than 2,200 people in […]
CONAKRY—Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak on Sunday when tests came back positive for the virus after three people died and four fell ill in the southeast—the first resurgence of the disease there since the world’s worst outbreak in 2013–2016. The patients fell ill with diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding after attending a burial in Goueke […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ triple antibody cocktail as the first Ebola virus treatment, lending validation to similar drugs being developed for COVID-19. Regeneron’s Inmazeb, an intravenous drug, has been approved for adults and children, after it was tested in 382 candidates with confirmed Zaire ebolavirus infection in a […]
KINSHASA, Congo—The 1-year-old daughter of the man who died of Ebola in Congo’s major city of Goma this week has the disease, the health ministry said on Aug 1, while Rwanda closed its border with Congo over the virus outbreak that now enters its second year.
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 this month.
A U.S. healthcare worker who was being monitored for the Ebola virus after treating patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo was released from a Nebraska hospital on Jan. 12 after doctors said they had seen no signs of the deadly disease. The individual, whose name was not released for privacy reasons, did not develop […]
Swedish health officials have announced that a male patient is suspected of having contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The unidentified patient is currently being treated at the Infectious Diseases Clinic of Uppsala University Hospital, officials said on Jan. 4, according to the Independent. The individual is said to have been quarantined after exhibiting symptoms that included vomiting […]
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo does not yet need to be declared as an international health emergency said global health officials. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been tracking the outbreak in recent months of what is regarded as one of the deadliest viral diseases known to humankind. On Oct. […]
GENEVA—The World Health Organization said on Tuesday, Sept. 25 that an Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo could worsen rapidly because of attacks by armed groups, community resistance and the geographic spread of the disease. “We are now extremely concerned that several factors may be coming together over the next weeks and months […]
