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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern. In a statement issued on Saturday, the WHO said the outbreak does not yet meet the threshold for a pandemic emergency under the…

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The risk of the Ebola epidemic is “high at the national and regional levels, but low at the global level”, and the situation is not a “pandemic emergency”, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, reported Xinhua. Speaking at a press conference, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that…

WHO Emergency Committee in ‌Geneva confirmed ‌that the latest Ebola outbreak ​of the ‌rare ​Bundibugyo strain is a public health emergency of international ​concern Geneva: The World Health Organization said ​on Wednesday there were 600 suspected cases of Ebola and 139 suspected deaths and numbers are expected to rise given…

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Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Ahead of next week’s India-Africa Forum Summit in New Delhi, the African Union has called for “collective international solidarity and cooperation” to deal with the Ebola virus outbreak affecting multiple African countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda. Responding to…

No one should panic, but this is “certainly a worrying chain of events,” said Tara C. Smith in MS.now . Two weeks ago, news broke that three people aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius had died of suspected hantavirus, a respiratory disease with no cure or vaccine. The Hondius…

What began as a temporary solution during the pandemic has become a lasting change, with millions of professionals now planning their lives around the possibility of working from anywhere. By 2026, workcations are mainstream. This new way of living is changing where travellers go, how long they stay, and what…

You need to know Ebola is highly contagious and deadly. It’s spreads internationally, such as in May 2026 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda outbreak. But that doesn’t automatically make it a pandemic.Read More

The world is more at risk of a pandemic now than before COVID, experts say. This is why As world health leaders face deadly outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola, a major pandemic preparedness report finds we are less safe from viral outbreaks than before COVID By Claire Cameron edited by…