Congo Ebola Outbreak

• Ebola has killed 2,000 people in ongoing Congo outbreak

  The death toll from the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has climbed over 2,000.

  Health

  Aug 30, 2019
  
• Efforts to end Ebola outbreak in Congo hindered by ‘political games’: WHO

  Attempts to end the second worst Ebola outbreak on record are being hampered by "political games" and distrust of outsiders in two towns in Democratic Republic of Congo, a senior World Health Organization official said on Monday.

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  May 13, 2019
  
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• Frontline Ebola workers in Congo threaten strike if security won’t protect them from armed militia and others

  Repeated attacks on treatment centers by armed militiamen and community members who think Ebola is a conspiracy against them have hampered the response to the second-deadliest outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever in history.

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  Apr 24, 2019
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• Ebola treatment centre attacked again by Congo’s Mai Mai militia, 1 dead

  Armed Mai Mai militiamen attacked an Ebola treatment centre at the heart of an outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo on Saturday, killing a policeman before being repelled by security forces, the local mayor said.

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  Mar 9, 2019
• Congo approves four experimental Ebola treatments to battle outbreak

  Congo’s health ministry has approved four experimental Ebola treatments, including the Canadian-developed ZMapp, for use in fighting the latest virus outbreak.

  Health

  Aug 22, 2018
• Congo tests experimental Ebola treatment as deadly outbreak grows

  Dozens of people have died in the recent Ebola outbreak, including multiple health care workers.

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  Aug 14, 2018
• Congo announces 4 new cases of Ebola a week after outbreak in north declared over

  Congo on July 24 declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that began in May in northwest Equateur province.

  Health

  Aug 1, 2018
• Ebola outbreak in Congo ‘largely contained,’ says WHO

  There have been no new Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo since June 9, the World Health Organization says.

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  Jun 20, 2018
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• Ebola cases in Congo rise to 35 with 10 recorded deaths: health ministry

  Congo’s health ministry says there are now 35 confirmed cases of Ebola in the country’s northwest, including 10 deaths confirmed from the often lethal virus.

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  May 26, 2018
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• This ‘lucky mistake’ from a Winnipeg lab is saving people from Ebola in the Congo

  Canadian researchers weren't intending to make an Ebola vaccine at first. But now their discovery is being used in an outbreak in the Congo.

  Health

  May 25, 2018