Follow AllAfrica News: Ebola, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-ebola Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:46:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtzd5wVahL9zyuZukmJ4mr4 [VOA] Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Health officials in Tanzania are investigating an illness that killed five people in the country's northwest with Ebola-like symptoms, raising fears that it could be the deadly virus.]]> Sat, 18 Mar 2023 07:37:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtzd5wVahL9zyuZukmJ4mr4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbux57rSXG7AZyRFMxTa8z4W [IPS] Kampala And Mubende -- It is two months since the World Health Organization declared Uganda free of the most recent Sudan ebolavirus, which killed 55 people.]]> Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:49:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbux57rSXG7AZyRFMxTa8z4W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvkG2I34mc-tt6jHbRcHw3s [ProPublica] How We Found That Sites of Previous Ebola Outbreaks Are at Higher Risk Than Before]]> Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:36:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvkG2I34mc-tt6jHbRcHw3s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsQmTdKT9g5Uem6srrLMsqK [The New Humanitarian] London -- 'The restrictive approach favoured by WHO is an absurdity.']]> Thu, 02 Mar 2023 07:48:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsQmTdKT9g5Uem6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbuZzH6qY2EPLrDXWBZfdr71 [UN News] In Uganda, a deadly outbreak of Ebola virus has been stopped in its tracks and declared officially over, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2023 07:40:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbuZzH6qY2EPLrDXWBZfdr71 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvWuLvsxHdVm4IAmcWJ0TmB [Independent (Kampala)] Shortly after Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, Uganda's Minister of Health declared Uganda free from Ebola on Jan.11, her colleague, Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma; the Acting Director General of the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, teased her telling her that he felt "both happy and sorry for Uganda."]]> Sat, 14 Jan 2023 12:10:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvWuLvsxHdVm4IAmcWJ0TmB https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvfZwMp_EpW_p8v71dCn6bG [WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville/Kampala -- Uganda today declared the end of the Ebola disease outbreak caused by Sudan ebolavirus, less than four months after the first case was confirmed in the country's central Mubende district on 20 September 2022.]]> Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:38:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvfZwMp_EpW_p8v71dCn6bG https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtEPsbqpUquJQm0QkxGtqLL [Nile Post] Uganda is waiting to be declared Ebola free on Wednesday, January 11 after going 42 days without reporting a new case.]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:06:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtEPsbqpUquJQm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtPtDzxbg9qnQC0qH-r7xlT [New Times] Speaking to The New Times, Edson Rwagasore, the Division Manager, Public Health Surveillance and Emergency Preparedness and Response at the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) said the country has picked a number of lessons from the previous outbreaks in the region and locally like Ebola and Covid-19 and is partly what inspired advanced preparedness.]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2022 11:50:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtPtDzxbg9qnQC0qH-r7xlT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsRU1IaDigx1gm0QkxGtqLL [Leadership] In a bid to avert an outbreak of deadly diseases in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the FCT Administration (FCTA) has heightened its disease surveillance system against key diseases like Cholera, Ebola, Monkeypox, meningitis, measles, and COVID-19.]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2022 07:15:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsRU1IaDigx1gm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvG7EJA0WDvFAm0QkxGtqLL [UN News] The UN warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is still a cause for global concern, and outbreaks of cholera, Ebola and Monkeypox (now renamed mpox) led to the mobilization of health and aid workers to contain life-threatening illnesses. The UN warned that the aim of eradicating HIV/AIDS by 2030 was under threat, but a new vaccine raised hopes that malaria can be beaten.]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2022 06:18:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvG7EJA0WDvFAm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtV9Iq1sLqYwLG7Iy_4u0x9 [VOA] Entebbe, Uganda -- Uganda on Thursday received two more potential vaccines for a trial against the Sudan strain of the deadly Ebola virus. Uganda has recorded 142 confirmed cases and 55 deaths since the September outbreak but has had no new cases since late November. While having no active cases is welcomed, it also means the trial will have to be revamped to test the vaccines' effectiveness.]]> Fri, 23 Dec 2022 07:27:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtV9Iq1sLqYwLG7Iy_4u0x9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsG0W0NL-ByvOm6srrLMsqK [Nile Post] President Museveni has hailed Ugandans for heeding to the advice of experts which has ensured the country defeats Ebola virus.]]> Wed, 21 Dec 2022 16:16:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsG0W0NL-ByvOm6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbs6hL3p9_O4klw3HFUzDTIP [Nile Post] President Museveni has with immediate effect lifted the lockdown imposed on Mubende and Kassanda districts to control the spread of Ebola virus.]]> Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:18:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbs6hL3p9_O4klw3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsZU3TDfXivHBhSCv31NykC [Independent (Kampala)] Mubende, Uganda -- Since Mubende and Kassanda have not registered any confirmed Ebola case for over 30 days, President Yoweri Museveni has lifted the curfew and travel restrictions in the two districts that have been in place for 3 months.]]> Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:38:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsZU3TDfXivHBhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtgjcnUu0FlGH1d0VB8z-7c [FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Partnership for Research on Vaccines and Infectious Diseases in Liberia (PREVAIL), a joint Liberia-United States clinical research partnership, is part of the Partnership for Research on Ebola Vaccinations (PREVAC), an international consortium that conducts research in West Africa. The PREVAC consortium (Liberia, Guinea, Mali, and Sierra Leone) includes scientists from PREVAIL, the French research organization Inserm, and from institutions in Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The conso]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:07:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtgjcnUu0FlGH1d0VB8z-7c https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvOgcdw3ZQXlQVLTsI7B9NX [The Independent Panel] Session: "Partnering for Sustainable Health Cooperation"]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2022 06:55:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbvOgcdw3ZQXlQVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbt76tiKGfPg1WsGk81fO-bN [Independent (Kampala)] December 05 marked 80 days of responding to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Uganda and seven days since the last confirmed case in one of the worst hit districts called Kasanda. A total of 36 contacts were actively being followed-up in four districts, a follow-up rate of 100% in the past 24 hours.]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:06:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbt76tiKGfPg1WsGk81fO-bN https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsfehI6LqDEEUGb1Jh49AJn [WHO] The first doses of one of the three candidate vaccines against Sudan ebolavirus arrived in Uganda yesterday. These will be evaluated in a clinical trial called the Solidarity Against Ebola or Tokomeza Ebola.]]> Sat, 10 Dec 2022 09:47:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbsfehI6LqDEEUGb1Jh49AJn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtHdzPumpNcBHCrAHWlao0B [allAfrica] Cape Town -- Uganda has received a shipment of 1,200 Ebola vaccine doses from the World Health Organization today, writes Elias Biryambarema for Reuters. Three vaccine options - one from the University of Oxford and Serum Institute of India, another by the Sabin Vaccine Institute and a third by Merck & Co Inc. will be considered for use in the clinical trial.]]> Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:35:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/FHNbxWWqhbtHdzPumpNcBHCrAHWlao0B