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Guinea launched an Ebola vaccination campaign on Tuesday after a fresh outbreak of the deadly disease struck the country this month, with officials hoping to eradicate the virus in six weeks. The country reported new Ebola cases on February 13 — the first in West Africa since a 2013-2016 epidemic that left more than 11,300
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The delivery to Guinea of vaccines against the Ebola virus has been delayed because of fog disrupting flights to the capital Conakry, a health official said Sunday. The World Health Organization (WHO) had announced that more than 11,000 doses of the Merck vaccine against the deadly disease were to arrive in Conakry on Sunday. The
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Health expert, Dr Iorhen Akase, has urged the Federal Government to update and publicise the case definition of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) to aid early identification of cases in Nigeria. Akase, also the Head, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, made the plea in an interview with the
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Guinean health authorities have declared an outbreak of Ebola in a rural community in the south of the country with no fewer than seven people infected. WHO Regional Office for Africa, in a statement posted on its website, stated that three people have died out of the seven people
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A factfile on the Ebola virus that has plunged Guinea into an “epidemic situation” according to a senior health official, and which has killed more than 15,000 people since 1976. – Origins – Ebola was first identified in central Africa in 1976. The tropical virus was named after a river in the Democratic Republic of
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Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, has expressed concern over the report of four suspected Ebola deaths in Guinea. Moeti, on her personal twitter account @MoetiTshidi on Sunday, was reacting to the report by the Guinea’s Ministry of Health on the resurgence of Ebola in the country. The Guinea’s Health
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Four people have died of Ebola in Guinea in the first resurgence of the disease in five years, the health minister said on Saturday. Remy Lamah told AFP officials were “really concerned” about the deaths, the first since a 2013-2016 epidemic — which began in Guinea — left 11,300 dead across the region. One of
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A second positive case of Ebola virus disease has been confirmed in the health zone of Butembo, North-Kivu province, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to health authorities. The response team said the second confirmed case is a 60-year-old farmer, who died on February 10, with an epidemiological link to the first case.
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A resurgence of the Ebola Virus Disease has been reported in the troubled east of the Democratic Republic of Congo after a woman died of the disease, just three months after authorities declared the end of the country’s previous outbreak.
Read More DR Congo on Sunday announced a “resurgence” of Ebola in its troubled east after a woman died of the disease, just three months after authorities declared the end of the country’s previous outbreak. “We have another episode of the Ebola virus” in the Biena health zone of North Kivu province, Health Minister Eteni Longondo told
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