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Ebola Outbreak in Africa Reaches Widest Expansion Ever

22 octobre 2026 à 12:41
Health officials are urgently seeking answers about the origins of a case newly identified in Nigeria, the first in that West African nation.

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Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, where the country’s first Ebola patient was admitted this week. An African health official said that if authorities could not come up with ways to stamp out the outbreak, “the whole continent can be affected.”

Nigeria Announces First Case of Ebola in Current Outbreak

20 octobre 2026 à 21:01
Health officials praised the Nigerian authorities for their transparency in reporting the spread of the virus.

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Testing for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands of people have died in this year’s outbreak.

Kenya Confirms Four New Ebola Cases

18 octobre 2026 à 13:58
Seven Ebola infections have now been confirmed in Kenya, which before this month had never recorded cases of the deadly virus.

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People at the Kenya-Uganda border this month. Uganda separates Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an Ebola outbreak has hit hard.

Trump Administration Delays Threaten Funding for HIV Research

7 octobre 2026 à 12:33
The networks also develop treatments and preventions for other infectious diseases and were instrumental in testing the Covid vaccine.

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Drawing blood at an H.I.V. clinic in South Africa last year. The research networks’ large footprint has enabled them to develop tools to prevent and treat H.I.V., including in marginalized or rare populations.

Kenya Records Ebola Case for First Time

6 octobre 2026 à 17:02
The authorities said that the virus had been diagnosed in a man arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo and that they were taking measures to prevent any spread.

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The Kenyan cabinet secretary for health, Aden Duale, at a news conference in Nairobi on Tuesday. He said the man with Ebola had lived in Congo for seven years, and fell sick a month ago.

How Congo’s Ebola Epidemic Got So Bad So Quickly

5 octobre 2026 à 17:00
What happened in Mangala, where residents were left with little outside support, helps explain how this outbreak became the worst seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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