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Nigeria’s Ebola Patient Evacuated as Investigators Press for Answers

28 octobre 2026 à 14:16
More than a week after the first case was reported in Africa’s most populous nation, pressing questions about the infection remain unanswered.

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A photograph released by the Geneva University Hospitals shows paramedics carrying from a helicopter a woman who had been diagnosed with Ebola following her flight from Nigeria, on Monday.

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.

Second Ebola Infection Announced in Kenya

15 octobre 2026 à 13:38
The case is likely to raise alarms in the country and increase scrutiny of the government’s surveillance measures.

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A nurse gestures inside Nairobi Hospital, where an Ebola patient was isolated immediately upon arrival and treated at the hospital’s East Wing Isolation Facility. The patient later died.

A Week Later, Russia Hasn’t Said What Pathogen Killed Plague Researcher

10 octobre 2026 à 13:09
Experts said they believed that with modern testing technology, the Russian authorities should know the answer by now.

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The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, on Wednesday. A 28-year-old researcher there died of an unexplained pneumonia.

Russia Plague Scare: What to Know About Fears of an Outbreak

8 octobre 2026 à 14:46
Russian authorities aren’t saying much about the death of a woman who worked in a lab studying plague. But experts say any risk of contagion would be limited.

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A security person looks out the door of an infectious diseases hospital in the Russian town of Shelekhov, where an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute died.
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