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The rapid spread of a rare Ebola strain through Central and East Africa is testing local public health authorities and raising concerns about the state of global health security. A health worker in ...

Gayton is a technologist and humanitarian adviser. Perakslis, is an engineer, scientist, and former strategic adviser for innovation for Médecins Sans Frontières who served in West Africa during the ...

A US citizen working for a humanitarian group in the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...

Kuppalli is an infectious diseases physician and former World Health Organization medical officer. Mbala-Kingebeni is a Congolese virologist and the head of epidemiology and global health at the ...

A health worker takes the temperature of a woman passing through the Kanyaruchinya checkpoint, as authorities and aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak. REUTERS According to ...

BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Moise Bulabantu is consumed by stress at the thought of contracting Ebola. As a community nurse in an Ebola-stricken area of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

DAKAR, June 30 (Reuters) - Congolese health authorities are tracing people potentially exposed to Ebola in two provinces not previously affected by the latest outbreak, amid fears the virus could ...

A violent militia that controls large swaths of Congolese territory in the east may use the virus to try to bolster its authority. By Ruth Maclean and Justin Makangara The Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The CDC has raised its Ebola response to its highest response level, signaling that the Ebola response is going to be a top priority for the agency. Raising the response to level 1 activation ...

Safe interment is critical to containing the deadly disease, but in recent days around one Congolese town, that was not always being done. Safe interment is critical to containing the deadly disease, ...

Fifty years after the first recognized Ebola outbreaks in central Africa, the ongoing Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda serves as a stark reminder ...