Category: Ebola
Ring vaccination effective in containing Ebola
Nature Success of targeted vaccination in curbing Ebola outbreaks in DRC, paving the way for future strategies against similar infectious diseases. A new study1 in the New England Journal of Medicine has highlighted the effectiveness of ring vaccination in containing Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ring vaccination is a public health strategy where […]
Jan 29, 2025
DRC: More than 10 suspected cases of Ebola including 8 deaths reported in the Bolomba health zone
Media Congo At least 12 suspected cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the Boyenge health area incorporated into the Bolamba health zone, located more than 250 km from the city of Mbandaka, capital of the Equateur province. The information was reported to the press on Monday, January 27, 2025 by Colomba Mampuya, […]
Jan 28, 2025
CEPI Dr Jean-Jacques Muyembe was a newly-qualified microbiologist working as a field epidemiologist when he got a call in 1976 to help investigate an outbreak. A pernicious disease had taken hold in the village of Yambuku in central Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. People were dying in large numbers of the infection – one that […]
Oct 2, 2024
Inside one of the world’s deadliest forests – and the bushmeat hunters risking contagion
Telegraph Ebola, Marburg and never-before-seen infections are spilling over into Guinea’s hunter communities. Scientists fear biological catastrophe. The village of Bouolazou, nestled away in the sprawling bush of southern Guinea, cannot be reached by car. Only motorbikes with deep-grooved tyres can make the journey, navigating an estuary of narrow tracks that wind over rocky hills […]
Nov 22, 2023
Liberia: Gov’t Dispels ‘Ebola Outbreak’ Claims
Liberian Observer The Ministry of Health has broken its silence to deny reports that the deadly Ebola virus, which wreaked havoc on the county years back, has emerged once again. The Ministry, in a release noted that the report of such was not just a lie but a conspiracy theory designed to instill fear in […]
Jun 6, 2023
Inside the Troubled Early Days of Guinea’s Ebola Response
PBS Why wasn’t the largest Ebola outbreak on record, which has now killed more than 10,000 people, stopped before it was too late? That’s the question at the heart of Outbreak, a FRONTLINE investigation from journalist and filmmaker Dan Edge that premieres tonight. In vivid, comprehensive detail, the film traces Ebola’s spread across West Africa, uncovering a string […]
May 23, 2023
Congo: a positive Ebola recorded in the Butembo health zone
Local News A positive case of Covid-19 was listed on the 4 samples tested from the Butembo health zone in North Kivu. This revelation was made on Monday, May 8, 2023 by the communicator of the provincial health division of Butembo, Dps-Butembo, Damulo Luhavo, during a press briefing he hosted at the permanence of this […]
May 16, 2023
Pathogens in Pop Culture: Jack Ryan, the Hot Zone, and Ebola
NETEC Podcast In episode two of the Pathogens in Pop Culture series, hosts Lauren Sauer and Rachel Lookadoo welcome guest Dr. Billy Fischer to discuss the portrayal of Ebola Virus Disease in the 2018 Jack Ryan TV series and Richard Preston’s 1994 novel, The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story. Together, they will explore the science behind the […]
May 2, 2023
Declaration of the End of the Ebola Outbreak in Uganda
(US Embassy Uganda) The Ugandan government, in coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO), declared the end of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Uganda on January 11, 2023. Concurrently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rescinded its Level 2 Travel Health Notice related to Ebola in Uganda. The United States terminated […]
Jan 24, 2023
Don’t wait for an Ebola outbreak to vaccinate people against it
(Nature) Uganda’s most recent Ebola outbreak should be a wake-up call to the world. Last October, just 3 weeks into the outbreak, the disease spread to Kampala, a well-connected city of 1.5 million people. From there, it might easily have entered other countries. As the incident manager at the Ugandan Ministry of Health, I coordinated […]
Jan 24, 2023