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Africa CDC: Uganda’s Ebola outbreak coming under control

January 6, 2023

Members of Doctors Without Borders NGO set up an Ebola treatment isolation unit at the Mubende regional referral hospital in Uganda on Sept 24, 2022. (BADRU KATUMBA / AFP) Africa's top public health body said on Thursday that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda was coming under control, as it had...

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Avian flu outbreak wipes out record 50.54m US birds

November 25, 2022

Cage-free chickens are shown inside a facility at Hilliker's Ranch Fresh Eggs in Lakeside, California, US, April 19, 2022. (MIKE BLAKE / REUTERS) CHICAGO - Avian flu has wiped out 50.54 million birds in the United States this year, making it the country's deadliest outbreak in history, US Department of...

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Malawi gets 2.9m cholera vaccine doses as outbreak spreads

November 8, 2022

In this Sept 14, 2019 file photo, a Yemeni child receives an oral cholera vaccine from a volunteer during a vaccination campaign in the capital Sanaa. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP) BLANTYRE - Malawi has received 2.9 million doses of oral cholera vaccine as an outbreak continues to spread across the...

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WHO says monkeypox remains global health emergency

November 2, 2022

This undated file image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory that was captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland,...

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WHO chief says Ebola spread in Uganda a matter of concern

October 28, 2022

Doctors walk inside the Ebola isolation section of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, in Mubende, Uganda, Sept 29, 2022. In this remote Ugandan community facing its first Ebola outbreak, testing trouble has added to the challenges with symptoms of the Sudan strain of Ebola now circulating being similar to malaria. (HAJARAH...

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11 children killed in school fire in central Uganda

October 26, 2022

A Student runs on the verandah of the classrooms block on day one of opening schools in Kampala, Uganda on Jan 10, 2022. (BADRU KATUMBA / AFP) KAMPALA- Eleven children were killed Tuesday in a school fire outbreak in the central Ugandan district of Mukono, police said. A police statement...

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11 children killed in school fire outbreak in central Uganda

October 25, 2022

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Ministry: Ebola death cases in Uganda rise to 24

October 19, 2022

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First health worker killed in latest Ebola outbreak in Uganda

October 2, 2022

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Uganda declares Ebola outbreak after Sudan strain found

September 20, 2022

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health Diana Atwine (center) confirms a case of Ebola in the country, at a press conference in Kampala, Uganda, Sept 20, 2022. (HAJARAH NALWADDA / AP) KAMPALA - An outbreak of Ebola has been declared in Uganda after health authorities confirmed a case of...

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WHO: Monkeypox outbreak can be eliminated in Europe

August 31, 2022

In this file photo taken on Aug 6, 2022, people line up to receive the monkeypox vaccine in Lille, northern France. (FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / AFP) LONDON - It is possible to eliminate the monkeypox outbreak in Europe, World Health Organization officials said on Tuesday, highlighting evidence that case counts...

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WHO: Monkeypox hits Europe, Americas hardest

July 28, 2022

Empty vials of vaccines against Monkeypox lie on a table after being used to vaccinate people at a medical center in Barcelona, Spain on July 26, 2022. (FRANCISCO SECO / AP PHOTO) GENEVA – Europe and the Americas have been affected the most by the monkeypox outbreak, Director General of...

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WHO declares monkeypox global public health emergency

July 24, 2022

In this file photo on Dec 20, 2021, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, talks to the media regarding the coronavirus and global health priorities in 2022, during a press conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (SALVATORE DI NOLFI/KEYSTONE VIA AP) GENEVA - The World...

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WHO: Over 6k monkeypox cases reported, emergency meeting set

July 7, 2022

World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers a speech on the opening day of 75th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organisation in Geneva on May 22, 2022. (JEAN-GUY PYTHON / AFP) LONDON - More than 6,000 cases of monkeypox have now been reported from 58 countries in...

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DR Congo declares 14th Ebola outbreak over

July 5, 2022

In this July 16, 2019 photo, health workers dressed in protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC. (JEROME DELAY / AP) KINSHASA -- The health ministry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Monday declared an end of the latest Ebola...

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WHO says monkeypox not yet a health emergency

June 26, 2022

In this photo provided by the Unidad de Microscopía Electrónica del ISCIII in Madrid, on May 26, 2022, an electronic microscope image shows the monkeypox virus seen by a team from the Arbovirus Laboratory and the Genomics and Bioinformatics Units of the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) in Madrid. (UNIDAD...

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Unlikely monkeypox outbreak will lead to pandemic, WHO says

June 1, 2022

This 1997 image provided by the CDC during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, depicts the dorsal surfaces of the hands of a monkeypox case patient, who was displaying the appearance of the characteristic rash during its recuperative stage....

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WHO: DRC sees 5 Ebola cases, all dead, amid latest outbreak

May 25, 2022

In this July 16, 2019 photo, health workers dressed in protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (JEROME DELAY / AP) KINSHASA - The Democratic Republic of the Congo has reported five cases of Ebola virus disease amid the...

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WHO calls emergency meet as monkeypox cases rise in Europe

May 22, 2022

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DR Congo declares new Ebola outbreak

April 25, 2022

This colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) obtained March 24, 2014 from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, reveals some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion. (HANDOUT / CDC / Cynthia Goldsmith / AFP) BRAZZAVILLE/KINSHASA - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared...