WHO sounds Ebola alarm as risks intensify
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters 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 neighbouring countries. Despite a highly effective vaccine and a swift international response after it was declared 11 months ago, the outbreak […]
“Sometimes we have to abandon the patients”: Treating Ebola in Congo’s warzone
Dakar, Senegal Thomson Reuters Foundation Marie-Claire Kolie knew Ebola only as a mysterious disease from medical school textbooks when it hit her home country of Guinea in 2014. Today the 40-year-old mother of three is part of a team of doctors fighting a major outbreak of the disease in Democratic Republic of Congo, where she […]
ESSAY: EBOLA OUTBREAK SPREADS TO UGANDA – IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED
STERGHIOS MOSCHOS, of Northumbria University in the UK, looks at news that Ebola cases have now been confirmed in Uganda…
WOW!: EBOLA LISTENING PROJECTS TAKE CUES FROM COMMUNITY TO IMPROVE RESPONSE
NELLIE PEYTON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on an initiative which could provide insights into communities affected by Ebola…
Quick facts – As cases pass 2,000, key facts about Congo’s Ebola epidemic
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation The number of Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has topped 2,000, according to new government figures that show the growth of the epidemic is gaining pace. The world’s second-biggest outbreak has killed 1,346 people since it was detected in August last year. Furana Katungu, two, who is confirmed to […]
Fights to end polio, contain Ebola made tougher by rising violence, research finds
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Documented attacks on health workers in conflict areas increased dramatically last year, endangering both children waiting for polio vaccines and efforts to contain the latest outbreak of Ebola, research showed on Wednesday. Last year 973 attacks were reported on health workers in nearly two dozen conflict-ridden countries, killing 167 […]
Congolese refugees cross illegally into Uganda, raising risk of Ebola – aid groups
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation People fleeing violence in an Ebola-hit region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are being forced to cross the border illegally into Uganda, risking the virus spreading into the neighbouring East African nation, aid groups said on Friday. More than 60,000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Beni region in North […]
More food aid could boost fight against Ebola in Congo, agencies say
Dakar, SenagalThomson Reuters Foundation Giving more food aid in Ebola-struck parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo could help stop the spread of the second-biggest outbreak in history, aid agencies said on Wednesday. Food shortages are a long-standing problem in the central African country, where about 13 million people, or 15 per cent of the […]
Public mistrust thwarts Congo’s Ebola response as cases climb
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation A quarter of people surveyed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola hotspots believed the virus was not real, a study said on Wednesday, as the world’s second-biggest outbreak spreads. Health workers said public mistrust is now the biggest obstacle to stopping the epidemic, which has infected more than 1,000 people in […]
Quick facts: From attacks to deaths, key facts about Congo’s escalating Ebola epidemic
Thomson Reuters Foundation Congo’s Ebola epidemic has now exceeded 1,000 cases, the country’s health ministry said on Monday, with a death toll of about 629 in the world’s second worst ever outbreak. The International Rescue Committee (IRC), an aid group, cautioned that case numbers were on the rise and the outbreak could last another six […]