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WHO’s Helen Clark has warned that ongoing hantavirus and ebolavirus outbreaks highlight the world’s lack of preparedness for the next pandemic. She flagged that health systems that fail to address known endemic risks will be ill-equipped to detect novel pathogens that could trigger future global crises. The World Health Organisation’s…

Lusaka, Zambia – As countries in the region respond to ongoing Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreaks in neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, Zambia continues to take proactive steps to strengthen its preparedness and response capacity through targeted investments in surveillance, digital tools, and pandemic planning. With support…

An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda has global public health officials scrambling to contain the relevant virus, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned will likely spread further and cause more deaths beyond the more than 130 estimated fatalities so far.…

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…