World
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International
2/9/2023 5:14:21 PM
A woman victimized by a World Health Organization doctor during a recent Ebola outbreak in Congo said she is shocked that no senior officials were punished for the sexual abuse and exploitation claims involving dozens of women in the conflict-ridden country.
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World
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International
2/6/2023 5:33:28 PM
A confidential U.N. report into alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization staffers in the way they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response didn't violate the agency's policies because of what some officials described as a ``loophole'' in how the WHO defines victims of such behavior.
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World
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Africa
1/11/2023 12:35:06 PM
Uganda's latest outbreak of the Ebola virus is over.
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World
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Africa
12/8/2022 6:03:10 PM
Uganda on Thursday received its first shipment of trial vaccines against a strain of Ebola that has claimed dozens of lives, amid cautious optimism the outbreak could soon be over.
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World
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Africa
11/16/2022 6:10:50 PM
The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that he expects the first doses of Ebola vaccine targeting the strain behind an outbreak in Uganda to arrive in the country next week.
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World
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Africa
9/23/2022 5:07:23 PM
A total of four people have died from the highly contagious Ebola virus in Uganda, where the authorities declared an outbreak earlier this week, health officials said on Friday.
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World
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International
7/24/2022 6:38:12 PM
In July 2022 Ghana confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade and Usifo Omozokpea asked virologist Oyewale Tomori about its origin and how people can protect themselves against the disease.
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World
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Africa
7/17/2022 10:13:13 PM
The World Health Organization has declared Ghana's first outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease after labs confirmed the infections in two cases announced earlier this month.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/5/2022 9:40:16 AM
The Democratic Republic of Congo declared its latest Ebola outbreak over on Monday, the World Health Organization said, more than two months after the virus re-emerged in the country’s northwest.
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World
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Africa
12/16/2021 6:41:38 PM
Congolese officials on Thursday announced an end to an Ebola outbreak that had killed at least six people since October in the latest health challenge confronting the country's restive east.
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World
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Africa
8/31/2021 10:22:08 PM
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World
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Africa
8/17/2021 5:58:21 PM
Ebola, which has reappeared in the Ivory Coast, has killed more than 15,000 people since 1976
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World
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Africa
8/9/2021 10:26:45 PM
'This is the first time Marburg, a highly infectious disease that causes haemorrhagic fever, has been identified in the country, and in West Africa,' WHO statement said.
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World
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Africa
3/17/2021 7:21:00 PM
New outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus disease in the two African countries are sending new jitters to Africa as the continent is still grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic
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World
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Africa
2/14/2021 2:22:15 PM
Four people died of Ebola in neighbouring Guinea, the first resurgence of the disease in five years.
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World
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Africa
2/14/2021 2:03:01 PM
A second round of tests is being carried out to confirm the latest Ebola diagnosis and health workers are working to trace and isolate the contacts of the cases, ANSS said
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World
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Africa
2/12/2021 4:39:45 PM
The case was found in Butembo, a city of over 1 million people and the epicentre of a major outbreak of the disease that was declared over last June after nearly two years
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World
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Africa
2/11/2021 10:04:07 AM
The cases mark a resurgence in the world's second-biggest outbreak, which was declared over last June, they said in the statement
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World
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Africa
2/7/2021 7:48:28 PM
The last person declared recovered from Ebola in Equateur was on October 16
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World
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Africa
11/18/2020 3:49:20 PM
The World Health Organization (WHO) said the latest outbreak had killed 55 people among 119 confirmed and 11 probable cases since June 1.
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