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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.”

Delhi’s Winter Season of Polluted Air Begins

21 octobre 2026 à 12:26
As air quality plummeted in India’s largest city, the government said it would act to curtail the haze that blankets the capital every winter.

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Hazy skies in New Delhi on Wednesday.

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.

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.

Russia’s Silence on Possible Plague Outbreak Stokes Fears of a Cover-Up

8 octobre 2026 à 14:22
As rumors spread about a possible plague outbreak in Siberia, the Kremlin turned to a familiar playbook: offering little information about potential bad news.

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The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, on Wednesday. The researcher who died worked in the lab.

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.

© Arlette Bashizi for The New York Times

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