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Montevideo, May 23rd 2026 - 19:07 UTC

Tag: ebola

  • Tuesday, May 19th 2026 - 18:53 UTC

    WHO warns of “magnitude and speed” of Ebola outbreak in Congo with 131 deaths and cases in Uganda

    The outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, an Ebola species for which no approved vaccines or treatments exist

    The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned on Tuesday before the World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva that “the magnitude and speed” with which the Ebola outbreak is spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are alarming, with more than 543 suspected cases, 131 deaths linked to transmission, and 33 laboratory-confirmed infections. Two further cases have been confirmed in neighboring Uganda, both involving Congolese citizens who had crossed the border, one of whom has died. The WHO director convened the organization's Emergency Committee to formulate containment recommendations.

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  • Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 21:35 UTC

    WHO concerned over resurgence of Ebola

    DR Congo has experienced 14 Ebola epidemics

    The World Health Organization (WHO) has voiced its concern over the reappearance and subsequent spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a territory formerly known as Zaire.

  • Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 09:12 UTC

    Ebola experimental vaccines trigger cabinet dispute in Congo

    
Ilunga has overseen the nearly year-long response to Democratic Republic of Congo's latest Ebola epidemic, which is the second deadliest in history

    
Congo's health minister, Oly Ilunga, resigned on Monday in protest at the presidency's announcement last week that it was stripping his team of control over the response to the Ebola outbreak.

  • Friday, May 18th 2018 - 08:42 UTC

    Ebola outbreak in Congo's jungle and in urban area of a 1.2m city

    DRC's Health ministry announced the finding, after laboratory tests conducted by the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, confirmed one specimen as positive

    One new case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) has been confirmed in Wangata, one of the three health zones of Mbandaka, a city of nearly 1.2 million people in Equateur Province in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo. United Nations troops are stationed in the area as part of the peacekeeping effort.

  • Monday, October 13th 2014 - 00:26 UTC

    Ebola's exponential growth

    The U.S. government’s Centers for Disease Control warned recently that we could have 1.4 million cases of Ebola by January.

    By Gwynne Dyer - Here are two good things about the Ebola virus. It is unlikely to mutate into a version that can spread through the air, as some other viruses have done. And people who have been infected by Ebola cannot pass it on to others during the incubation period (between two and 21 days). Only when they develop detectable symptoms, notably fever, do they become infectious to others, and only by the transfer of bodily fluids.

  • Friday, September 12th 2014 - 01:18 UTC

    Congo reports 31 new Ebola cases in the week to 9 September

    All cases have been localized in Jeera county, particularly in the villages of Watsi Kengo, Lokolia, Boende, and Boende Muke.

    Thirty one cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) more have been reported between 2 and 9 September 2014, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), increasing the cumulative number of cases to 62 (14 confirmed, 26 probable, and 22 probable), according to the latest report from WHO, World Health Organization.

  • Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 - 22:49 UTC

    Ebola outbreak in Congo is the indigenous 'Zaire strain' and not connected to West Africa

    Gabon laboratory report clearly stated, “the virus in the Boende district is definitely not derived from the virus strain currently circulating in west Africa.”

    Results from virus sequencing of samples from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been analyzed and they belong to the so called Zaire strain, in a lineage most closely related to a virus from the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, DRC.

  • Friday, August 22nd 2014 - 13:19 UTC

    Two first patients treated for Ebola virus in US hospital have been released

    After thanking God for his recovery, Dr. Brantly said he was glad for the attention his sickness has attracted to the plight of the West Africa epidemic

    The two United States aid workers who were the first patients ever to be treated for the Ebola virus at a hospital in the US have been released, capping a transcontinental medical drama that stirred public debate about whether citizens with the virus or exposed to the virus should have been allowed to return.

  • Saturday, August 16th 2014 - 08:28 UTC

    Ebola-affected region athletes involved in body contact disciplines banned from Youth Games

    The rules will prevent three athletes from the region from competing in those events, the Nanjing organizing committee statement said.

    The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Friday it was prohibiting young athletes from the Ebola-affected region of West Africa from participating in certain events at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.

  • Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 06:29 UTC

    First European Ebola infected dies; WHO approves unproven drugs for people at risk

    “A number of interventions have been through the laboratory and animal study phases of development,” it said in a statement issued by the WHO.

    Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, the first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa, has died in hospital in Madrid, a spokeswoman for the city's health authorities said.

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