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By:brightwebtv.com nana Asare barimah The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Equateur Province continues to grow, causing major concern as the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners face critical funding gaps. Confirmed cases have now surpassed the total number recorded during the province’s last outbreak in …

SOURCEwww.who.int PHOTO: A Red Cross burial team wore protective clothing to visit houses where people were infected with Ebola. (Getty Images: John Moore) A new case of Ebola virus disease was confirmed today in the city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). “While not welcome news, …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   The Health Minister resigned in protest at the handling of the Ebola outbreak The Health Minister in the Democratic Republic of Congo has resigned in protest at the handling of the Ebola outbreak in the east of the country. In his resignation letter, Oly Ilunga …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   The World Health Organization,(WHO), has declared Congo’s recent Ebola outbreak a public health emergency that needs international concern. According to the definition of WHO, a public health emergency means that other states stand the risk of being affected by the spread of the disease. The declaration …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     A five-year-old boy in Uganda has been diagnosed with Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed. This is the first case confirmed in the country amid a deadly outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 2,000 cases have been recorded there in …