The ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda has now killed 61 people, with 359 confirmed cases. The Bundibugyo strain of the virus has a fatality rate of between 30% and 50%, and ...
Jun 8, 2026
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In a remote South African village, Paulina Mhlongo sits in the yard as health workers in green protective gear move briskly through her home, soaking the walls with anti-mosquito insecticide.
Jun 8, 2026
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U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans' medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism—a connection the medical establishment studied ...
Jun 5, 2026
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The UN health chief was on Friday in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where authorities are struggling to contain the spread of a deadly Ebola outbreak but the recovery of a patient, the first since the crisis began, was ...
May 29, 2026
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A vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus will be ready by the end of the year, the head of Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said Thursday.
May 28, 2026
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The deadly Ebola outbreak raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo currently has a case fatality rate under 25%—much lower than in other recent outbreaks, a WHO update has shown.
May 27, 2026
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Ugandan health authorities on Monday reported two new Ebola cases, bringing the number of infections to seven.
May 25, 2026
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Michele Barry, director of the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, explains how this strain differs, why public risk outside the DRC remains low, and what a global response requires.
May 22, 2026
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The new outbreak of a rare Ebola type in Congo and Uganda poses low global risk, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, but responders on the ground described being underprotected and undertrained for a rapidly spreading ...
May 20, 2026
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As a deadly outbreak of Ebola virus spreads in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on May 17, 2026, that it is transferring "a small number of Americans" who ...
May 19, 2026
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