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Health workers don protective clothing as they prepare to attend to patients in the isolation ward to diagnose and treat suspected Ebola patients, at Bikoro Hospital in Bikoro, the rural area where the Ebola outbreak was announced last week, in Congo. Congos latest Ebola outbreak has now spread to Mbandaka, a city of more than 1 million people, a worrying shift as the deadly virus risks traveling more easily in densely populated areas. (Photo: AP)

Fear and suspicion hinder Congo medics in Ebola battle

Health officials working hard to get out accurate information about deadly hemorrhagic fever but face significant...

26 May 2018 2:37 AM GMT

Health workers don protective clothing as they prepare to attend to patients in the isolation ward to diagnose and treat suspected Ebola patients, at Bikoro Hospital in Bikoro, the rural area where the Ebola outbreak was announced last week, in Congo. Congos latest Ebola outbreak has now spread to Mbandaka, a city of more than 1 million people, a worrying shift as the deadly virus risks traveling more easily in densely populated areas. (Photo: AP)

WHO lauded for fast Ebola action in Congo

So far, 52 confirmed, likely or suspected cases of the deadly virus have been registered in DRC, including 22 deaths.

25 May 2018 3:47 PM GMT

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has deployed 25 epidemiologists to Mbandaka and Bikoro to support the governments surveillance work. (Photo: AP)

2 more dead; 7 new cases confirmed in Congo Ebola outbreak

One of the deaths occurred in Mbandaka, according to a daily healthy ministry bulletin.

23 May 2018 2:59 AM GMT

Dr. Guyauma Ngoyi Mwamba, centre, representative of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Expanded Program on Immunization, is administered with a vaccine during a vaccination campaign in Mbandaka, Congo Monday, May 21, 2018. Congos health minister says a nurse has died from Ebola in Bikoro, the rural northwestern town where the outbreak began, as the country begins a vaccination campaign. (Photo: AP)

Congo Ebola outbreak: Nurse becomes 27th victim to die from deadly...

The nurse's death brings the toll to 27, with 49 cases of hemorrhagic fever, of which 22 have been confirmed as Ebola.

22 May 2018 9:36 AM GMT

Some 28,000 people were infected with Ebola in the outbreak which began in late 2013 and continued through last year, killing more than 11,000 people mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. (Photo: AFP)

14 confirmed Ebola cases in Congo as WHO holds emergency meeting

The World Health Organization held an emergency meeting on Friday and called the risk to the public in Congo "very...

18 May 2018 8:09 AM GMT

The World Health Organization is planning to try out an experimental Ebola vaccine to fight the outbreak of the virus. (Photo: AP)

Congo receives first doses of Ebola vaccine amid outbreak

Health Ministry said vaccinations would start at weekend, first time vaccine would come into use since it was developed...

17 May 2018 2:49 AM GMT

The World Health Organization is planning to try out an experimental Ebola vaccine to fight the outbreak of the virus. (Photo: AP)

Ebola outbreak hits Congo, WHO to send vaccines to fight virus

WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus in Twitter post said agreement was made in a phone call with Congo's health...

12 May 2018 3:32 AM GMT

The World Health Organization is planning to try out an experimental Ebola vaccine to fight the outbreak of the virus. (Photo: AP)

Congo Ebola outbreak: 43 cases suspected as teams gear up to fight...

The experimental vaccine normally needs to be kept at 80 degrees Celsius below freezing.

7 Aug 2018 3:02 AM GMT

The latest flare-up was announced one week after Congos government declared the end of another outbreak in northwestern Congo. (Photo: AP)

Eastern Congo Ebola outbreak has killed 33: Health ministry

Thirteen cases of the haemorrhagic fever have been confirmed, including three deaths, the ministry said in a statement.

6 Aug 2018 3:01 AM GMT