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4 days ago · Ebola (EBOV) and Marburg (MARV) viruses are emerging pathogens of the Filoviridae family that cause sporadic and global outbreaks of acute hemorrhagic fever in humans, resulting in mortality rates ...
4 days ago · Provision of water and sanitation plays an essential role in protecting human health during all disease outbreaks, including during Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreaks. This “Key questions and answers concerning water, sanitation and hygiene during Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreaks” document, jointly developed by WHO and UNICEF in 2014 and updated in July 2021, provides recommendations to ensure that good water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices are implemented both in health ...
1 day ago · "My name is Hélène Mula. I've been a volunteer since 2018. I'd known about the Red Cross for a while, but I was afraid to join at first because I only knew about their work conducting burials [during Ebola]. I thought that’s all they did. So I was scared. But when I arrived here in Mbandaka, a friend of my son's came to visit him.
1 day ago · This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal ...
2 days ago · Brazzaville – As the mpox outbreak that has affected the Democratic Republic of the Congo and spread to neighbouring countries continues to grow, World Health Organization (WHO) is intensifying support to countries to scale up measures to curb the virus and save lives.
3 days ago · World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has determined that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR). WHO
1 day ago · (AP) The World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency, requiring urgent act...
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