EBOLA OUTBREAK

The end of Guinea's second Ebola outbreak was officially announced on Saturday by the World Health Organization (WHO). The outbreak began on February 14. "I have the honor to declare the end of Ebola" in Guinea, said WHO official Alfred Ki-Zerbo at a ceremony in the southeastern Nzerekore region where the disease occurred in late January. It was the second such outbreak in the poor country of 13 million people since the devastating Ebola epidemic of 2013-2016 in West Africa, which left 11,300 dead in…

The Democratic Republic of Congo announced the end of its latest Ebola outbreak, three months after the first case was reported in eastern Kivu province. The outbreak infected 12 people in northern Kivu and killed six of them. The outbreak was contained with the help of Merck's Ebola vaccine, which was given to more than 1,600 of the patients' contacts and contacts, says the help group Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The cases were genetically linked to the 2018-2020 Ebola epidemic that killed more…

The Democratic Republic of Congo announced the end of its latest Ebola outbreak, three months after the first case was reported in eastern Kivu province. The outbreak infected 12 people in northern Kivu and killed six of them. The outbreak was contained with the help of Merck's Ebola vaccine, which was given to more than 1,600 of the patients' contacts and contacts, says the help group Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The cases were genetically linked to the 2018-2020 Ebola epidemic that killed more…

The Democratic Republic of Congo, where the deadly Ebola virus first appeared in 1976, has begun a countdown to the official end of its latest outbreak, this time in the east of the country, health officials said on Tuesday. The last patient to be treated for Ebola tested negative for the second time on Sunday, triggering a 42-day countdown from Monday, the World Health Organization's (WHO) DR Congo office said. The period represents twice the average maximum duration of Ebola's incubation, the Agence…