The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo’s northwest is growing, according to health officials, sounding the alarm weeks after the country officially declared an end to a separate Ebola epidemic which claimed over 2,000 lives. There have been 54 confirmed cases since June 1 in Mbandaka, a transport hub in Equateur province, including 22 deaths, according […]

By Abdallah K. Gwarzo 1. NCDC IS LESS THAN A DECADE OLD The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control first came to limelight in 2014, following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Since then, the young agency has focused on strengthening health security in Nigeria. The first official step to establish NCDC as Nigeria’s national public […]

Health workers in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo have begun administering vaccinations after the country’s 11th known outbreak of Ebola erupted last week, the authorities said Monday. Six people have died of the much-feared haemorrhagic virus since June 1, when the first cases came to light in Mbandaka, capital of Equateur province. The outbreak coincides […]

Three months after the first case of coronavirus in Nigeria, the National Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has become one of the better-known agencies of the Federal Government. It has earned its renown for the skilful management of the pandemic that shut down Nigeria and over 200 countries of the world. 

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa says no fewer than 200 contacts of recent Ebola cases have been vaccinated in Beni,  Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). WHO had, on April 10, confirmed a new case of Ebola virus in the city of Beni after 52 days of not recording a case […]