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Is COVID-19 deadlier than other viruses?

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Apr 18 02:05 AM

The global death toll from COVID-19 passed three million on Saturday. The post-World War I Spanish Flu wiped out 50 million people, according to some estimates. And over the decades AIDS has killed 33 million. Read more »

US warns of Ebola threat after Africa outbreaks

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 17 08:04 AM

WASHINGTON - The United States on Tuesday warned that, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the world "cannot afford to turn the other way" after cases of Ebola were confirmed in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more »

Guinea tracks potential Ebola contacts, says it can overcome new outbreak

Saliou Samb, Reuters
Posted at Feb 16 04:52 PM

CONAKRY- Guinea is tracking down people who potentially had contact with Ebola patients and will rush vaccines to the affected area as soon as possible following at least three deaths from the disease, Health Minister Remy Lamah said on Monday.   Read more »

Ebola: profile of a prolific killer

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 15 11:00 AM

PARIS, France - Here are some fast facts 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. Read more »

Guinea sees first Ebola deaths since 2016

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 14 10:22 AM

Four people have died of Ebola in Guinea in the first resurgence of the disease in five years, the country's health minister said Saturday.   Read more »

Congo’s deadliest Ebola outbreak is declared over

Abdi Latif Dahir, The New York Times
Posted at Jun 26 07:07 AM

The second-worst Ebola outbreak in history is over, the World Health Organization said Thursday, after nearly two years and 2,280 deaths. Read more »

DR Congo reports fresh Ebola outbreak

Samir Tounsi and Bienvenu-Marie Bakumanya, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 02 11:32 AM

KINSHASA - DR Congo reported a fresh Ebola outbreak in its northwest on Monday, the latest health emergency for a country already fighting an epidemic of the deadly fever in the east as well as a surging number of coronavirus infections. Read more »

Humans to blame for spread of coronavirus and other 'zoonoses'

Stéphane Orjollet, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 21 02:55 PM

Whether it came from a bat or a pangolin is not certain, but one thing is: the coronavirus outbreak that has killed tens of thousands and turned the world upside down comes from the animal world. Read more »

Africa looks to Ebola lessons in fight against coronavirus

Samir Tounsi, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 04 12:31 AM

Their continent has so far only registered two coronavirus cases, but sub-Saharan African governments are looking to their experience with Ebola as they prepare their fragile public systems for outbreaks of the new virus. Read more »

World Bank pandemic bond under pressure as coronavirus spreads

Karin Strohecker, Reuters
Posted at Feb 20 08:43 AM

The bonds, issued by the World Bank's International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), offer investors high coupons in return for the risk of having to forgo some or all their money in the event of pandemic outbreaks of a number of infectious diseases, with the funds channeled instead to countries in need of aid. Read more »

Ebola spreads in Congo after militants attack treatment camp: WHO

Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters
Posted at Dec 13 11:15 PM

Militia fighters in eastern Congo killed four people and wounded several in attacks on two Ebola response centers two weeks ago, in what responders described as a serious setback to efforts to contain the epidemic. Read more »

WHO prequalifies first Ebola vaccine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 13 05:22 AM

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said it had prequalified an Ebola vaccine for the first time, hailing a "critical step" towards its licensing, access and roll-out in countries most at risk of outbreaks.   Read more »

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

Djaffar Al Katanty and Aaron Ross, Reuters
Posted at Aug 30 06:18 PM

GOMA, CONGO - The death toll from Democratic Republic of Congo's year-long Ebola outbreak has climbed above 2,000, government data showed on Friday, as responders battle to overcome community mistrust and widespread security problems. Read more »

Pinoys in Congo urged to remain cautious amid Ebola outbreak

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 10 10:20 AM

MANILA - Filipinos based in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been advised to remain on alert amid the health threat of the Ebola outbreak. Read more »

WHO sounds Ebola alarm as risks intensify

Tom Miles, Reuters
Posted at Jul 18 05:47 PM

GENEVA - The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared Congo's Ebola outbreak an international health emergency, sounding a rarely used global alarm after the virus threatened to spread to a major city and into neighboring countries. Read more »

More than 1,000 dead in D.R. Congo Ebola epidemic

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 04 11:01 AM

KINSHASA, DR Congo - More than 1,000 people have now died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said, as aid workers warned that the highly contagious virus combined with insecurity in the restive region was creating a "deeply worrying situation."   Read more »

WHO considering global health emergency over DRC Ebola outbreak

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 16 03:24 AM

The World Health Organization said Monday its experts will meet this week to determine whether an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo constitutes a global health emergency.   Read more »

New Ebola virus found in Sierra Leone

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 27 09:08 AM

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - A new Ebola virus has been found in bats in Sierra Leone, two years after the end of an outbreak that killed over 11,000 across West Africa, the government said on Thursday. Read more »

Ebola infects woman's husband, sons, a year after she recovered: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 24 08:45 AM

PARIS, France - A woman who survived Ebola in July 2014 may have infected her husband and two sons more than a year later, said a study Tuesday, highlighting the need for "continued surveillance".   Read more »

Ebola survivors suffer severe mental, neurological problems

Reuters
Posted at Jul 12 01:11 AM

People who survive the deadly Ebola virus can continue to suffer severe psychiatric and neurological problems including depression, debilitating migraines, nerve pain and stroke, according to a study published on Wednesday. Read more »