Kampala, June 2 (IANS) A special C17 Globemaster aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) arrived in Uganda on Tuesday with further medical assistance from New Delhi amid the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the continent. “An Indian Air Force special C17 Globemaster Aircraft delivered today the 2nd tranche of India’s medical assistance at Entebbe International Airport, Uganda,” the High Commission of India in Kampala wrote on X.India dispatched the second tranche of medical assistance to the Afric…
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Kampala, June 2 (IANS) Uganda has confirmed six new cases of Ebola, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the ongoing outbreak to 15, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.According to the ministry’s latest Ebola update, the six new cases were identified among contacts of previously confirmed patients.The ministry said 12 Ebola patients are currently admitted to treatment facilities, while two patients have been discharged after recovery, Xinhua news agency reported.The East Afri…
Dar es Salaam, June 1 (IANS) The East African Community (EAC) will convene an extraordinary virtual meeting of health ministers from June 1 to 2 to coordinate a regional response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak affecting parts of East Africa, the regional bloc has said in a statement. The meeting will focus on strategies to contain the outbreak caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, for which there is currently no licensed vaccine or specific treatment, according to the statement…
Kampala, May 23 (IANS) Uganda on Saturday confirmed three more new Ebola cases, raising the total number of infections in the country to five.The country’s Ministry of Health updated that a Ugandan driver who transported the first confirmed case, a Ugandan health worker who got exposed while taking care of the first confirmed case, and a Congolese woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who entered Uganda with symptoms are the new confirmed cases.The ministry noted that all three patie…
Geneva, May 17 (IANS) The World Health Organisation on Sunday determined that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda constitutes a “public health emergency of international concern.”The WHO said on social media platform X that the outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency. The Director-General of WHO expresses his gratitude to the leadership of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda for their commitment to…
Kinshasa, May 16 (IANS) Roger Kamba, health minister of Congo, warned Saturday that the newly declared Ebola outbreak in the eastern province of Ituri involves the Bundibugyo strain, which has a high fatality rate and carries a significant risk of further spread.”The Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine and no specific treatment,” Kamba told a press briefing in the capital Kinshasa, adding that the strain has “a very high lethality rate which can reach 50 per cent.”Congo declared a new Ebola outbrea…
Addis Ababa, May 15 (IANS) The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Thursday emphasised the urgent need to enhance continental capabilities, as many African countries lack the necessary capacity to detect and respond to potential hantavirus threats.Yap Boum II, head of the emergency preparedness and response division at the Africa CDC, told an online media briefing that the agency’s recent assessment of the continent’s preparedness to hantavirus has revealed critical…
Addis Ababa, May 13 (IANS) The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) urged health authorities and the general public to remain alert and strengthen Hantavirus surveillance measures despite the outbreak being categorised as low risk to public health in Africa. During a joint technical briefing, Yap Boum II, head of emergency preparedness and response division at Africa CDC, called for efforts to strengthen surveillance and remain pr…