Democratic Republic of Congo

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Fight Against Ebola Has New Science, but Faces Old Hurdles in Congo

Fiston Mahamba 10/09/2018

An experimental vaccine has advanced the fight against Ebola but...

A Congolese health worker administers Ebola vaccine to a woman who had contact with an Ebola sufferer in the village of Mangina

As Outbreak Continues, Congo Approves More Experimental Ebola Treatments

Amedee Mwarabu and Fiston Mahamba 22/08/2018

Health authorities last week started administering the US-developed mAb114...

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Congo Starts Using Experimental Ebola Treatment

Reuters 14/08/2018

The outbreak in eastern Congo's North Kivu province has...

World Health Organization workers prepare a centre for vaccination in the port city of Mbandaka

New Ebola Outbreak Declared in DRC a Week After Previous One Was Declared over

Reuters 01/08/2018

Twenty people have died from hemorrhagic fevers in Congo...

Rapid Spread of Polio in the Congo Threatens Global Eradication Efforts

Rapid Spread of Polio in the Congo Threatens Global Eradication Efforts

The Wire Staff 04/07/2018

Despite months-long efforts of public health experts to contain...

FILE PHOTO: Peter Salama, Executive Director of the Health Emergencies Programme at the WHO attends a briefing for World Health Assembly (WHA) delegates on the Ebola outbreak response in Democratic Republic of the Congo at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, May 23, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

Almost All at Immediate Risk of Ebola in Congo City Now Vaccinated: WHO

Tom Miles 30/05/2018

The deputy director-general also said that the WHO hoped...

The first batch of 4,000 experimental Ebola vaccines to combat an outbreak is loaded into a fridge as it arrives at the airport in Kinshasa

Congo: ‘New Phase’ of Ebola, Virus Enters Urban City Mbandaka

Reuters 17/05/2018

Supplies sent to Congo by the World Health Organisation...