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US regulators approve first treatment for Ebola virus

October 15, 2020 8:16 am

The drug was one of four tested during an outbreak in Congo that killed nearly 2,300 people before it ended in June.

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Congo hit by a second, simultaneous Ebola outbreak

June 02, 2020 7:18 am

The discovery is a major blow for Democratic Republic of Congo, which has suffered three Ebola outbreaks since 2017. It is also combating a measles epidemic that has killed over 6,000 and COVID-19, which has infected over 3,000 and killed 71.

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Remdesivir, used against Ebola virus, may affect reproduction of SARS-CoV-2: ICMR

April 13, 2020 7:53 pm

According to the latest update by Health Ministry, 905 positive cases and 51 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, taking India's case count to 9,352 and toll to 324 deaths.

Coronavirus: Lessons to learn from Ebola

March 14, 2020 1:38 pm

As COVID-19 cuts a wide swathe of panic, the experts who beat Ebola in West Africa are looking on, knowingly. China and Italy are to the pandemic what Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were to the epidemic of 2014 – 2016.

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In Congo, an Ebola survivor with a motorbike helps ease fear

October 21, 2019 5:51 pm

Kalubenge is a rare motorcycle taxi driver who is also an Ebola survivor in eastern Congo, making him a welcome collaborator for health workers who have faced deep community mistrust during the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history.

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Ebola: What is the best vaccination strategy?

October 07, 2019 3:57 pm

An end to the Ebola epidemic is not in sight, Doctors Without Borders calls on the World Health Organization to adopt a new vaccination strategy. What is the dispute about?

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Ebola death toll in east Congo outbreak climbs above 2,000

August 30, 2019 1:31 pm

This is Congo's 10th Ebola outbreak, but it is the first in the densely forested hillside provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, where militia-led violence and ethnic killing have undermined security in certain areas for decades.

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Ebola spreads to remote, militia-run Congo territory

August 19, 2019 3:43 pm

The widening geographic spread of the virus, and its presence in yet another zone under the sway of armed groups, raises the risk of it spreading out of control, even while the technical tools to rein it in are better than ever.

Explained: Congo's Ebola outbreak may be controllable now. Here's how

August 17, 2019 7:33 am

The virus derives its name from the 250-km long Ebola river which flows through Congo and at a point is over 60-km from Yambuku, the rural Congolese area where some of the first patients of the disease were reported.