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    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Disease control and prevention
      WHO warns over spread of Marburg virus after Tanzania deaths

      Global health body urges increased vigilance to reduce transmission of deadly disease

      A body is taken away in a truck
    • Monday, 24 October, 2022
      Richard Hatchett
      We must stop being one step behind whichever virus comes for us next

      This is how the world can get faster and smarter in its ability to respond to outbreaks of new infectious diseases

      health worker injecting vaccine into an arm
    • Sunday, 14 March, 2021
      Guinea Ebola outbreak probably caused by reinfection, researchers say

      Provisional results suggest spread of disease traced back to previous sufferer

    • Monday, 8 February, 2021
      DR Congo
      Fresh Ebola outbreak feared in Democratic Republic of Congo

      New case emerges as country battles second wave of coronavirus that is stronger than first

    • Monday, 1 June, 2020
      Democratic Republic of Congo declares new Ebola outbreak

      Epidemic is fourth occurrence of the haemorrhagic fever in central African country in 3 years

      Family members of a deceased Ebola victim react after viewing the body before its safe burial in Beni, DRC, in July last year
    • Thursday, 12 March, 2020
      David Pilling
      Coronavirus and the collapse of global public health

      From clean water to antibiotics and vaccines, the most effective interventions are collective

      Kenyan nurses wear protective gear during a demonstration of preparations for any potential coronavirus cases at the Mbagathi Hospital, isolation centre for the disease, in Nairobi, Kenya March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
    • Wednesday, 4 March, 2020
      David Malpass
      World Bank: Coronavirus highlights the need to strengthen health systems

      This outbreak can be contained given our shared goals — but we must act fast

      IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank Group President David Malpass bump elbows at the end of a joint press briefing on COVID-19 in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2020. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
    • Saturday, 29 February, 2020
      Coronavirus
      Public health experts call coronavirus a ‘pandemic’ 

      Doctor treating US cases says hospitals should prepare for surge of patients

      Harborview Medical Center's home assessment team, including (L-R) John Lynch, Santiago Neme, and Krista Reitberg hold protective and testing supplies, while preparing to visit the home of a person potentially exposed to novel coronavirus, at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, U.S. February 29, 2020. REUTERS/David Ryder
    • Wednesday, 5 February, 2020
      Coronavirus
      African coronavirus fears grow

      US warns that continent could be weak ‘underbelly’ of the outbreak

      Mandatory Credit: Photo by DANIEL IRUNGU/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10542080a) A Kenyan health worker (L) screens a passenger wearing face mask after they arrived from China, at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, 29 January 2020. African airports are on high alert after a suspected cases of cononavirus were detected in the Ivory Coast, Kenya and Ethiopia. Coronavirus screening at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya - 29 Jan 2020
    • Thursday, 21 November, 2019
      Charlotte Wagner
      Global health equity is needed to prevent an Ebola pandemic

      Vaccinations, bed nets and oral rehydration help in the short term but are not solutions

      KUMALA, SIERRA LEONE NOVEMBER 21: Fatmata Kalma, 6, watches as a worker cleans around her in the remote village of Kumala, Sierra Leone, on Friday, November 21, 2014. The young girl's mom died of the Ebola virus which swept through the village in the Koinadugu District with the arrival of a contagious visitor. (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images
    • Sunday, 22 September, 2019
      WHO criticises Tanzania for withholding Ebola information

      World Health Organization says country has not been sharing data on suspected cases

      FILE PHOTO: Health workers dressed in protective suits are seen at the newly constructed MSF(Doctors Without Borders) Ebola treatment centre in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 4, 2019.REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo
    • Tuesday, 27 August, 2019
      Disease control and prevention
      Vaccines ‘most powerful tool against infectious diseases’

      Cepi’s Richard Hatchett outlines the economic case for investing in vaccines

      World news People are seen washing their hands at an Ebola screening station on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on July 16 in Goma.
    • Tuesday, 27 August, 2019
      Debate over vaccination strategies dogs Ebola efforts in Congo

      New vaccine from J&J could supplement current shot from Merck

      Family members of a deceased Ebola victim react after getting their turn to view the body before the safe burial on July 15, 2019 in Beni.
    • Tuesday, 13 August, 2019
      Ebola drugs trial raises prospect of cure for deadly disease

      More than 90% of patients in Democratic Republic of Congo survived when treated early

      In this handout photograph released by UNICEF on May 13, 2018, health workers wear protective equipment as they prepare to attend to suspected Ebola patients at Bikoro Hospital - the epicenter of the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo - on May 12, 2018, which has sealed off a ward to diagnose suspected Ebola patients and provide treatment. The outbreak in the region northeast of Kinshasa near the border with the Republic of Congo has so far killed 18 people around the town of Bikoro in Equateur province, according to the WHO. A report from the provincial council of ministers, seen by AFP, said there were "three suspected cases" in the region's capital Mbandaka, which has 700,000 inhabitants. / AFP PHOTO / UNICEF / MARK NAFTALIN / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /UNICEF/MARK NAFTALIN" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSMARK NAFTALIN/AFP/Getty Images
    • Thursday, 1 August, 2019
      Why Ebola cannot be tamed in Congo

      One year on, criticism grows of international effort that has failed to halt epidemic

      Funeral of Sister-in-law of Hussein Wabuzi - A family member of a deceased Ebola victim carries the cross before the safe burial starts on July 14, 2019 in Beni.
    • Thursday, 1 August, 2019
      News in-depthWorld3 min
      Ebola: its history in numbers

      Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is latest to hit Africa

    • Monday, 22 July, 2019
      DR Congo
      Congo health minister resigns amid Ebola outbreak

      Move followed government’s decision to centralise response to epidemic

      FILE PHOTO: A Congolese health worker administers Ebola vaccine to a child at the Himbi Health Centre in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 17, 2019. REUTERS/Olivia Acland/File Photo
    • Thursday, 18 July, 2019
      News in-depth
      Medical experts sound alarm on Ebola epidemic    

      WHO declares DRC outbreak as ‘public health emergency of international concern’

      More than 2,500 cases of Ebola have been detected since the first patient presented symptoms in August last year and almost 1,600 people have died
    • Wednesday, 17 July, 2019
      Africa
      WHO declares emergency over Ebola epidemic in Congo

      First case in city of Goma prompts international response to outbreak

      In this photograph taken Sunday July 14, 2019, a morgue employee walks with a cross past others disinfecting the entrance to the morgue in Beni, Congo DRC. The head of the World Health Organization is convening a meeting of experts Wednesday July 17, 2019 to decide whether the Ebola outbreak should be declared an international emergency after spreading to eastern Congo's biggest city, Goma, this week. More than 1,600 people in eastern Congo have died as the virus has spread in areas too dangerous for health teams to access. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
    • Monday, 15 July, 2019
      Ebola case confirmed in Congolese city of Goma for first time

      Case represents new phase in outbreak that has spread for 11 months

      FILE PHOTO: A health worker puts on Ebola protection gear before entering the Biosecure Emergency Care Unit (CUBE) at the ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) Ebola treatment centre in Beni, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 31, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo
    • Monday, 15 July, 2019
      Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
      Anti-vaxxers distract from a more serious threat

      Many parents aren’t afraid of social media trolls but simply can’t access or afford vaccines

      Jessica Castro of Federal Way, Washington, holds up a sign against SB 5841 while holding her 2-month-old baby Zoe during the "March for Medical Freedom" against mandatory vaccinations before the SB 5841 hearing in Olympia, Washington, U.S., February 20, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson - RC150F5AE630
    • Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
      Anjana Ahuja
      Ebola outbreak demonstrates science’s need to ‘nudge’

      Human behaviour can be as destructive to human health as any deadly pathogen

      FILE PHOTO: A health worker wearing Ebola protection gear, walks before entering the Biosecure Emergency Care Unit (CUBE) at the ALIMA (The Alliance for International Medical Action) Ebola treatment centre in Beni, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 30, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo
    • Sunday, 16 June, 2019
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Ebola outbreak demands more urgent attention

      Money, vaccines and peace are needed to tackle the latest epidemic

      People coming from Congo have their temperature measured to screen for symptoms of Ebola, at the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, in western Uganda Friday, June 14, 2019. In Uganda, health workers had long prepared in case the Ebola virus got past the screening conducted at border posts with Congo and earlier this week it did, when a family exposed to Ebola while visiting Congo returned home on an unguarded footpath. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)
    • Thursday, 13 June, 2019
      ESG investing
      Ebola escalation keeps World Bank’s ‘pandemic bonds’ in spotlight

      Instruments have been criticised for strict criteria on when affected nations receive payouts

      TOPSHOT - A health worker puts on protective gears as he prepares to screen travellers at the Mpondwe Health Screening Facility in the Uganda's border town of Mpondwe as they cross over from the Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 13, 2019. - A grandmother in Uganda has died from Ebola, health officials said on June 12, 2019, the second fatality in the country since a major outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo crossed the border. (Photo by ISAAC KASAMANI / AFP)ISAAC KASAMANI/AFP/Getty Images
    • Wednesday, 12 June, 2019
      Ebola outbreak in Congo causes first death in Uganda

      Confirmed cross-frontier cases mark significant escalation of epidemic

      FILE - This Tuesday, April, 16, 2019 file photo taken in Congo shows an Ebola health worker at a treatment center in Beni, Eastern Congo. Uganda's health ministry said late Tuesday, June 11, 2019 that a 5-year-old Congolese boy who crossed into Uganda has tested positive for Ebola in what is the first cross-border case of the deadly virus since an outbreak started in neighboring Congo last year. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro, File)
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