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Nigeria and other African countries learned key lessons on viral outbreaks from ebola
Their continent has so far only registered two coronavirus cases, but sub-Saharan African governments are looking to their experience with Ebola as they prepare their fragile public systems for outbreaks of the new virus. Confronted with multiple diseases -- malaria, cholera, measles, as well as Ebola -- most African countries are struggling with fragile public healthcare systems.
In 2014, an Ebola outbreak stormed West Africa, leaving more than 11,000 dead mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and also reaching Nigeria and Mali.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has discharged its last Ebola patient -- a major milestone in the fight against the world's second-largest Ebola outbreak.
The last patient being treated for Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo was discharged on Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, bringing the 19-month-old outbreak closer than ever to an end. The patient's release from hospital in the eastern city of Beni, feted by hospital staff who
“Ebola knocked us over, but now we know not to underestimate anything; we know how important it is to prepare.”
The World Health Organization has some good news about a virus that's plagued the world for quite a bit longer than coronavirus: Ebola. Matthew Larotonda reports.
The last patient being treated for Ebola in Congo was discharged on Tuesday, the World Health Organization said, bringing the 19-month-old outbreak closer than ever to an end.
The patient’s release from hospital in the eastern city of Beni marks the first time there have been no active cases since the outbreak was declared in August 2018
Over a year of fighting the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country’s last patient was discharged from the treatment center on Tuesday.
English News and Press Release on Democratic Republic of the Congo about Health and Epidemic; published on 03 Mar 2020 by WHO
The last patient being treated for Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo was discharged on Tuesday, WHO said.
The last Ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was discharged on Tuesday from a treatment centre in the north-eastern town of Beni.
The last Ebola patient being treated in the Democratic Republic of Congo went home from a treatment center on Tuesday, according to the World Health Organization, a significant step in the countdown to declaring an end to the world's second-deadliest outbreak of the disease.
The last Ebola patient being treated in the Democratic Republic of Congo went home from a treatment center on Tuesday, according to the World Health Organization, a significant step in the countdown to declaring an end to the world's second-deadliest outbreak of the disease.
The new coronavirus was introduced into Nigeria on February 25, 2020, by an Italian engineer traveling from Milan (a European center of the virus outbreak) via Istanbul to Lagos on Turkish Airlines. Nigeria’s Ebola response in 2014 may be instructive for how it responds to coronavirus today.
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During a Morse College Tea called “A Tale of Two Outbreaks,” Dr. Eugene Richardson — a Harvard professor of global health and social medicine — emphasized the importance of examining the social and historical dynamics of epidemics. The tea was held on Feb. 26 and attended by students and faculty. They listened intently as Richardson […]