Category: Africa
Equatorial Guinea confirms 13 Marburg cases after WHO comments
Reuters Equatorial Guinea has confirmed 13 cases of Marburg disease since the beginning of the epidemic, its health officials said on Wednesday after the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged the Central African country’s government to report new cases officially. Marburg virus disease is a viral haemorrhagic fever that can have a fatality […]
Mar 30, 2023
The government sends specialist doctors to Kagera, quarantine reaches 205
Tanzania News (Machine Translated) The quarantined citizens who are being monitored for Marburg symptoms have increased from 193 to 205 while the Minister of Health, Ummy Mwalimu said that no patients have increased. The people quarantined in Bukoba district, Kagera Region after coming into contact with Marburg patients have increased from 193 to 205 while […]
Mar 28, 2023
Marburg virus disease – United Republic of Tanzania
WHO Situation at a glance On 21 March 2023, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the United Republic of Tanzania declared an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in the country. As of 22 March, a total of eight cases, including five deaths (case fatality ratio [CFR]: 62.5%) have been reported from two villages in […]
Mar 28, 2023
Forbes The World Health Organization has urged African health authorities to be vigilant to the spread of the deadly Marburg virus, following reports of a new outbreak in Tanzania and a slew of new cases in Equatorial Guinea, as experts in multiple countries scramble to contain the highly infectious Ebola-like disease for which there is […]
Mar 28, 2023
Niger reports severe bird flu among poultry
(Zawaya) Niger has reported the highly contagious H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, among poultry in a village in the south of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday. The outbreak in the south of the Tahoua region killed most of a 4,920-strong flock, with the remaining […]
Dec 27, 2022
Ebola in Uganda: 23 days since confirmation of last case, Lockdown lifted in Mubende and Kassanda
(Outbreak News Today) Uganda’s Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of Sudan Ebola Virus (SVD) on September 20 after a case was confirmed in Mubende district. This is the first time in more than a decade that Uganda reported an outbreak of Sudan ebolavirus. According to officials, it’s been 23 days since the last confirmed case was […]
Dec 20, 2022
11/4/2022 Health Care Worker Ebola Fatality at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital 11/4/2022 WHO Africa Ebola Report #42 11/4/2022 Uganda says Ebola outbreak death toll rises to 48 (Reuters) The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to 48, with 131 confirmed cases, a health official involved in managing the outbreak said on […]
Nov 4, 2022
Foreign Policy – Authorities are scrambling to quell the country’s biggest outbreak in two decades. Ugandan authorities are scrambling to quell a deadly Ebola outbreak that is believed to have killed 39 people and infected at least 54 people, fueling concerns of a wider public health crisis since the virus strain currently circulating has no available vaccine. The latest outbreak—Uganda’s biggest in two […]
Oct 13, 2022
Monkeypox treatment trial begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
NIH – A clinical trial to evaluate the antiviral drug tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, in adults and children with monkeypox has begun in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The trial will evaluate the drug’s safety and its ability to mitigate monkeypox symptoms and prevent serious outcomes, including death. The National Institute of Allergy and […]
Oct 12, 2022
EU provides immediate support to Uganda
EU Commission – As the Ugandan authorities have identified over 40 cases of Ebola Virus Disease in the past weeks, the EU has mobilised an initial €200,000 in emergency funding to support the Uganda Red Cross. The funding is part of an urgent request launched by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent […]
Oct 5, 2022