WHO chief visits new DRC Ebola center amid efforts to stop outbreak
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The Ebola Crisis: The Inconvenient Truths
On Saturday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of the Ebola outbreak, where the virus is spreading faster than the response. The crisis is centered in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with spillovers into Uganda and rising concern across neighboring states. Official numbers remain uncertain [...]
The Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) is due to leave Kinshasa this Monday, June 1st in the evening after an interview with President Félix Tshisekedi. The end of a several-day trip to the country for Tedros Ghebreyesus, who has visited Bunia, which is today the epicentre of the Ebola epidemic. This is where a part of the response is concentrated to contain the spread of the disease. And on the spot, he has found a ministerial dele…
WHO chief visits new DRC Ebola center amid efforts to stop outbreak
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited on Sunday (May 31) a newly opened Ebola treatment facility in Bunia, in the eastern Congolese province of Ituri, hardest hit by the latest outbreak – as health authorities and aid partners step up efforts to contain the spread of the virus.
China Dispatches Medical Experts to DRC as International Support Grows in Fight Against Ebola
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 2 — China has deployed a specialized medical expert team to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to support efforts to contain the ongoing Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo strain, as international partners intensify assistance to the Central African nation. The team, “specially dispatched” by the Chinese government, departed Beijing on Tuesday and is expected to work alongside Congolese health authorities and int…
Ebola Outbreak In DRC Outpaces Response As Violence, Distrust And Regional Tensions Grow
Johannesburg – The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is spreading faster than health authorities can contain it, raising fears of a wider regional health emergency and prompting fresh international concern over security, public trust, and preparedness. The World Health Organization (WHO) says the latest outbreak, caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, has reached 282 confirmed cases and resulted in 42 dea…
WHO chief: Community trust key to stopping rare Ebola strain
BREAKINGTrust from communities on the front lines will determine whether health officials can rein in a fast-moving Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring Uganda, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned, underscoring that public cooperation is as vital as medical expertise in crises like this. Speaking in Bunia, the outbreak’s epicentre, […]
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