Ebola outbreak
US travel warning adds to pressure on Tanzania over suspected Ebola cases
US travellers should 'exercise increased caution', the State Department said on Friday in an updated travel advisory that cited reports of 'a probable...
They produce antibodies that cling to the Ebola virus and destroy it.
Scientists are now a step closer to treating and preventing the deadly Ebola disease as two new drugs have passed the clinical trial phase.
It said the funding would meet about half the needs of a new Ebola response plan that is due to be agreed by the Congolese government and an international consortium next week.
In a resignation letter posted on his Twitter account, Ilunga decried 'interference in the management of the response' to the outbreak, which is the second deadliest in history.
Despite a highly effective vaccine and a swift international response after it was declared 11 months ago, the outbreak has proved tenacious, becoming Congo’s worst ever.
In an update on the epidemic in eastern DRC, the health ministry said its Ugandan counterparts had confirmed there had been no further infections.
Such a declaration would risk creating restrictions on travel or trade “that could severely harm the economy in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Aavitsland said.
The virus has killed 1,223 of the 1,847 people who have fallen ill, making it the second-worst Ebola outbreak on record.
The infant, named Sylvana, is the first documented case, in the current outbreak, born to a mother who recovered from the deadly haemorrhagic fever.
The attacks came a day after opposition candidate Martin Fayulu visited Beni to launch his campaign ahead of December’s high-stakes presidential election.
Ebola is believed to have killed 245 people in North Kivu and Ituri provinces where attacks by armed groups and community resistance to health officials have hampered the response.
But there is worry that the current outbreak was in an active conflict zone in North Kivu, making it hard for health workers to track down and isolate cases, the official said.
It’s nevertheless warning nine of the Congo’s eleven neighbours that they are at high risk of the deadly haemorrhagic disease spreading across the borders.
Ebola has spread to Beni, a city of several hundred thousand people where scores of people have been confirmed infected.
Health officials say they have made progress slowing the haemmorhagic fever’s spread with experimental vaccines and treatments.
The death toll from the latest outbreak of the deadly haemorrhagic disease has risen to 49 and the World Health Organisation says it expects more.
Health officials have moved aggressively to contain the epidemic in a bid to head off a repeat of the 2013-16 outbreak in West Africa that killed more than 11,300 people.
Peter Salama, WHO Deputy Director-General for Emergency Preparedness and Response, said more than 400 potential Ebola contacts had been vaccinated.