Three more cases have been reported in a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) Equateur, and health officials have fleshed out more details about the cluster of cases. Yesterday the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the DRC had notified it of an outbreak in the northwestern part of the country…
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, 7 MARCH 2020. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) confirms that the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has now been reported in several African countries, with cases in Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Togo, and Tunisia. It’s important to emphasize that we anticipated that this…
As of today’s reports, the global number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has surpassed 100 000. As we mark this sombre moment, the World Health Organization (WHO) reminds all countries and communities that the spread of this virus can be significantly slowed or even reversed through the implementation of robust containment and control activities. China…
In 2011, a novel virus,MEV-1, emerged from China and quickly spread throughout the world, killing 2.5 million people in the U.S. and 26 million worldwide. That outbreak wasn’t real, of course—it was the plot of the film Contagion, providing a Hollywood-style glimpse into the panic that surrounds a global pandemic. At the moment, we’re in…
