The Latest Breaking News from Ebola

At least 15 people have died in Rwanda from an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, which is usually fatal without treatment

“Do they know it’s Christmas?” Fuse ODG (real name Nana Richard Obiana) turned down the offer to take part in the 30th anniversary of the original song in 2014 which was to be refashioned to raise money for the Ebola crisis. He says: “I pointed out to Geldof the lyrics…

Musicians are distancing themselves from the “colonial” Christmas single, but Bob Geldof refuses to change the lyrics

The Covid-19 and Ebola outbreaks brought into stark relief the harms that can come to humans if we interfere too much with nature, placing ourselves in contact with animals carrying unknown pathogens.

Rwanda is in the midst of its first outbreak of Marburg virus – an often fatal disease with symptoms similar to Ebola. So far, 46 cases have been recorded and 12 deaths. The source of the outbreak is still not known.

Liberia, with a population of just over 5.6 million people, is one of the world’s ten poorest countries, with a GDP per capita of US$662.50. The lingering effects of two civil wars (1989-2003), Ebola outbreaks (2014-2015) and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) have left Liberia short of achieving widespread development goals.…

Quick question: what do these titles have in common? A Dark Continent Seeking Light; Sure, Ebola is Bad. Africa has Worse, or; Magic and Cannibalism in the African Jungle. You guessed it – they’re all about Africa. But the most correct answer is they’re all headlines that have appeared in…

Barely over a year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that mpox was no longer a public health issue of international concern, it is back in the news. This time with a diversity of variants, new modes of transmission and new populations infected.

A fake report of an Ebola case was by UCSC sent to trick students

The mpox outbreak puts pressure on a region already struggling with a lack of medicines and an ongoing armed rebellion.

Lessons from Ebola and Covid were not learned, say Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as they launch report calling for urgent action