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Ebola Outbreak Declared In Northeast DR Congo
An Ebola outbreak has been declared in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said...
ECOWAS Sets Up Rapid Response Team To Help Contain Disease Outbreaks
A four-day ECOWAS health resilience training programme to equip selected individuals from the fifteen West African...
Confirmed – Bird Flu Outbreak Hits Niger
Niger has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus among poultry. The disease, which continues...
Another Bird Flu Outbreak Hits Tema
Health authorities in the Tema Metropolis have confirmed the outbreak of birdflu in the area. At least 24,000 birds are...
South Sudan: MSF Reduces Cholera Activities after Treating 3,300 Cases
(South Sudan,Médecins Sans Frontières) A significant decline in the number of new cholera cases in South Sudan in...
Cholera Outbreak in Ghana Reaches Alarming Heights; Over 10,000 Cases Recorded
Efforts to control the cholera outbreak seem to proving futile as the disease keep spreading to other parts of the...
The Current State of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak.
Ebola still has the "upper hand" in the outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, but experts...
First Cases of Ebola In Congo, Two Deaths Confirmed
Congo’s health minister Felix Kabange Numbi said today that two deaths have been confirmed to be caused by Ebola, the...
Sierra Leone Passes New Ebola Law Making It Illegal To Hide An Ebola Patient
Sierra Leone voted to pass a new amendment to its health act, imposing possible jail time for anyone caught hiding an...
Worst Cholera Outbreak in 4 years over 4,000 Confirmed Cases
Ashanti Region has recorded its first cholera death while 21 others are in critical conditions since renewed outbreak...
Ghana Cholera Outbreak At ‘Staggering’ Level, Over 3100 Infected
A cholera outbreak in Ghana's capital has reached "staggering" levels, an official said on Friday, blaming poor...
Ghana Armed Forces to Help in Building Ebola Isolation Centres
Field Engineers of the Ghana Armed Forces have been deployed to speed up work on the three designated centers to be set...
Tests on Kasoa Suspected Ebola Case Negative
According to the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Kasoa, Adam Nuhu, tests conducted on blood samples of two persons...
Ghana May Now Have Recorded Her First Case of Ebola
A man from neighboring Burkina Faso, who shows symptoms of fever and bled from his nose and ears “was brought in...
African Leaders to Be Screened for Ebola Ahead of US-Africa Summit in Washington
African Leaders attending next week’s US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington D.C. will be screened for Ebola,...
Video: Monkey Meat and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia
West Africa is being plagued by a new outbreak of Ebola — a terrifying disease that causes its victims to bleed to...