The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo showed no signs of easing Friday on the eve of the UN chief’s visit to the country, with the death toll from the highly contagious virus crossing 2,000 and a new …
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A new way of financing the fight against global diseases lured investors with annual returns of more than 11%. The deadly Ebola outbreak in Africa is highlighting shortcomings of so-called pandemic bonds in halting contagions....
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Amidst unrelenting chaos and violence, scientists and doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been running a clinical trial of new drugs to try to combat a year-long Ebola outbreak.
On Monday, the trial’s co-sponsors at the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of...
An oil discovery in Republic of Congo could produce nearly 1 million barrels of oil per day, which will bring the country in league with other major African crude oil producers such as Nigeria and Angola....
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An outbreak of Ebola has killed more than 1,800 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo Ebola may soon be a “preventable and treatable” disease after a trial of two drugs showed significantly improved survival rates, scientists have said....
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Two experimental treatments to treat Ebola infection work so well that they will now be offered to all patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo, scientists announced Monday.
The antibody-based treatments are so powerful — “Now we can say that 90 percent can come out of treatment …
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A year after the start of a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a third case has been confirmed, yesterday, in the major border city of Goma, just as neighbouring Rwanda announced the closure of the border between the two countries. DRC authorities, …
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DR Congo’s Health Minister, Oly Ilunga Kalenga has resigned after the responsibility for managing the country’s Ebola outbreak was taken away from him by President Felix Tshisekedi. Kalenga’s resignation letter was shared on Twitter in protest to the decision to remove the Ebola response...
The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo a "public health emergency of international concern".
The move may encourage wealthy donor countries to provide more cash....
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Ebola has claimed around 1400 lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo while there are reports that two people have lost their lives in western Uganda.
The Conversation Africa’s Ozayr Patel asked Janusz Paweska about how the disease has spread and what can be done. How is …
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More than 2,000 cases of Ebola have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last 10 months, officials have said.
Two thirds of the cases have been fatal, the health ministry added....
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The death toll from the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 1,000, the health ministry says.
DRC’s Ebola outbreak began in August and …
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Twenty-six people died of Ebola in a single day in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, the highest daily toll since its outbreak nearly nine months ago, the health ministry said Tuesday.
The current outbreak is the second deadliest …
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Dr. Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung of Cameroon, who was killed on Friday in the attack on an Ebola response command center in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 750 people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday, ahead of a key review on the severity of the epidemic.
WHO’s latest toll for the outbreak declared in eastern DRC last August came …
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Felix Tshisekedi was on Thursday sworn in as Congo’s new president, marking the first ...
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Felix Tshisekedi is the new president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, succeeding ...
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