The minister of health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng has said her ministry has resolved to deploy health workers on the Uganda-Tanzania Mutukula border as a response measure for the Ebola ... Read more »
Ebola has infected over 3000 people and claimed more than 2000 lives since the first case was declared in August 2018 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In July 2019, the World ... Read more »
Travellers to Tanzania are being urged by the U.S. State Department to exercise increased caution due in part to a "probable" fatal case of Ebola. The travel alert that also cited ... Read more »
The government has held talks with the World Health Organization's representative in Tanzania, Dr Tigest Ketsela Mengestu, over a report of an Ebola outbreak in the country, which ... Read more »
The humanitarian medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières has issued a statement saying that the pace of Ebola vaccination in DR Congo is too slow and that only a ... Read more »
Tanzania is refusing to provide detailed information on suspected Ebola cases, the World Health Organization has said, accusing the east African country of impairing efforts to ... Read more »
According to officials from the two countries, a lot has been done to curb the spread of Ebola that has recently been recorded in Goma, close to the Rwandan border, prompting rapid ... Read more »
According to data from the World Health Organisation, women and girls aged 11 and older have contracted Ebola at a higher rate than men and boys in the same age range and young ... Read more »
The health ministry has confirmed that the blood sample of a 9-year-old Congolese girl was drawn and sent to the Uganda Virus Research Institute for testing and confirmed positive ... Read more »
The three day visit by Antonio Guterres will help him assess the situation and mobilize additional support for the response his spokesman, Stephane Dujarric says. Read more »
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