The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) says the European Commission has allocated 17.5 million euros to support ongoing efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in Africa. Africa CDC said this in a post on its official X account on Tuesday. According to the agency, its Director-General, Dr Jean Kaseya, received Ms…
The World Health Organization (WHO) says the ongoing outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola has resulted in 515 confirmed cases and 91 deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). WHO said this in a statement on Tuesday, noting that neighbouring Uganda had also recorded 19 confirmed cases, two deaths and one probable…
The number of suspected Ebola cases still under investigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has dropped sharply to 116, the country’s health ministry said Wednesday. The decline came after many previously listed suspected cases were tested and ruled out, World Health Organisation (WHO) spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said on Tuesday. A DRC Health…
South Sudan Senior Presidential Envoy, Adut Kiir has backed Emergency preparedness and response following the outbreaks of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring Uganda, amid fears of possible cross-border transmission. Kiir, Senior Presidential Envoy on Special Programmes in South Sudan, alongside the Minister of Health, Hon. Luke…
The Enugu State Government has urged residents to avoid self-medication and promptly report anyone showing signs of illness to health facilities as part of measures to prevent Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The Commissioner for Health, Prof. George Ugwu, made the appeal in a statement issued on Tuesday in Enugu following the inauguration and activation of…
Ugandan health ministry on Monday announced two more confirmed cases of Ebola, bringing the total number of cases reported in the country to seven. The two new cases are health workers in a private health facility in the capital Kampala and both are Ugandans, the ministry said in a statement. “Both patients have been admitted…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the latest Ebola outbreak in Central Africa a public health emergency of international concern after hundreds of suspected infections and deaths were reported in Congo and Uganda. WHO said on Wednesday that there were currently 600 suspected Ebola cases and 139 suspected deaths, though officials warned the true…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda a global public health emergency amid fears of rapid cross-border transmission. Addressing delegates at the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirmed that a Public Health Emergency of International Concern…
The United Nations has launched an emergency appeal to raise 11.2 million dollars to help fund Uganda’s response to an Ebola outbreak that has killed two people. This came after Uganda’s health budget was strained by U.S. cuts to foreign aid. Uganda declared the outbreak of the highly infectious and often fatal haemorrhagic disease in…
Uganda Health Minister, Jane Ruth Aceng said eight people have been discharged after recovering from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain under quarantine. The East African country declared an outbreak of the highly infectious and often fatal haemorrhagic disease in January after one man, a male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in…
