Armed attacks, misinformation and a growing funding gap continue to impede the response to the Ebola outbreak, with the World Health Organization warning that the situation could ... Read more »
The World Health Organization's panel of experts say that a wider group of contacts will now be vaccinated and it is going to reduce dosages to allow for this due to concerns over ... Read more »
Reports of people from DR Congo being prevented from crossing the border into Uganda and choosing to enter the country illegally without being screened for Ebola have raised ... Read more »
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says that in the past week, 23 cases were reported in one day, a record number since the start of the outbreak ... Read more »
Uganda's Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng has said the increasing complexity of the current outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces presents a major risk of spreading within ... Read more »
Militants have attacked another hospital in North Kivu Province on Saturday. This after gunmen in Butembo attacked a hospital and killed Dr Richard Mouzoko, an epidemiologist from ... Read more »
The UN has said that while Ebola does not constitute a public health emergency of international concern, there is a potential risk of the disease spreading to neighbouring ... Read more »
The World Health Organization has said that 65 new confirmed cases was reported in the last seven days, predominantly from Katwa, Mandima, Butembo, and Vuhovi. Read more »
The World Health Organization reports an increase in the number of Ebola cases. It says there were 72 recorded cases last week, compared to 56 cases the week before. An earlier ... Read more »
The International Rescue Committee says the number of confirmed and suspected cases since the latest outbreak began in August exceeds 1,000 and it could last as long as another ... Read more »
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