Ebola death toll in Uganda climbs to nine
The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to nine, the health ministry said Friday, two weeks after the authorities announced an epidemic in the centre of the country.
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Ebola deaths in Uganda climb to seven
The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to seven, the health ministry said Friday, after President Yoweri Museveni ruled out a lockdown to contain the highly contagious virus.
Sep 30, 2022
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Five steps to stop Ebola spreading in East Africa: A frontline expert advises
The biggest Ebola outbreak in human history happened in West Africa from 2014 to 2015. I was on the front lines in Liberia serving as the head of case detection for the National Ebola Response team and administering critical ...
Sep 30, 2022
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DR Congo declares end to latest Ebola outbreak
The Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday declared an end to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged in eastern North Kivu province six weeks ago, the World Health Organization said.
Sep 27, 2022
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Uganda confirms 7 Ebola cases, races to halt outbreak
Uganda confirmed seven Ebola infections Thursday as authorities try to track down 43 contacts of known Ebola patients two days after authorities in the East African country announced an outbreak of the contagious disease.
Sep 22, 2022
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The Ebola virus: profile of a dreaded killer
The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976.
Sep 20, 2022
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Uganda declares first Ebola death since 2019
Uganda's health ministry on Tuesday announced the country's first fatality from the highly contagious Ebola virus since 2019, declaring an outbreak in the central district of Mubende.
Sep 20, 2022
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Researchers use stem cells to investigate liver damage from the Ebola virus
The Ebola virus was first identified in 1976 near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, there have been periodic outbreaks of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), mostly in Africa, resulting in 13,700 ...
Sep 8, 2022
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Individual risk-factor data could help predict the next Ebola outbreak, new study shows
Several years ago, a team of scientists at Lehigh University developed a predictive model to accurately forecast Ebola outbreaks based on climate-driven bat migration. Ebola is a serious and sometimes-deadly infectious disease ...
Sep 1, 2022
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DR Congo reports new Ebola case in restive east
Democratic Republic of Congo says it has recorded a new case of Ebola in its violence-wracked east, less than six weeks after an epidemic in the country's northwest was declared over.
Aug 23, 2022
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