The Ebola outbreak in Congo surpasses 7,000 cases and reaches a seventh province The Ebola epidemic hitting the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to grow. The latest government data raises the toll to 7,022 confirmed cases and 3,398 deaths. The virus is already present in seven provinces. The most...
The Ebola outbreak declared last May in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is approaching the barrier of 7,000 cases, according to the most recent balance released by health authorities, who have also reported the first infection in the province of Ubangi Sur, in the northwest of the country...
Anthropic, the company responsible for the AI assistant "Claude," has aborted at least five scientific research projects potentially linked to the development of biological weapons so far this year, several of them with a high pandemic risk.This is noted in the report "Detecting and Combating the Misuse of AI," released...
The Ebola outbreak declared in mid-May in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has already surpassed the thresholds of 6,800 cases and 3,300 deaths, according to authorities, in a context of growing concern about the risk that the expansion of the disease will completely overwhelm the...
The Ebola outbreak declared in mid-May in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has already surpassed 6,700 confirmed cases, according to the latest official data. The health authorities of the country estimate that nearly 3,270 people have died as a result of the virus.The National Institute...
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported that the number of confirmed Ebola infections has already surpassed 6,600 since the official declaration, in mid-May, of an outbreak that has become the deadliest recorded in the African country, with more than 3,200 fatalities according to the...
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have updated this Monday the balance of the Ebola outbreak declared in mid-May in the east of the country, which already totals more than 6,400 confirmed infections and 3,175 deaths, consolidating for weeks as the deadliest recorded in the history...
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported that the Ebola outbreak declared in mid-May in the east of the country has already surpassed 6,500 infections, with nearly 3,150 deaths, in a context of growing concern about a possible spread of the disease to areas in...
The Ebola outbreak declared in mid-May in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has already surpassed 6,300 confirmed infections, after adding nearly a hundred new cases in the last day, according to health authorities, who also place the deaths around 3,100.In its most recent report, the...
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have updated this Thursday to 6,250 the number of confirmed cases of Ebola since the outbreak was declared four months ago, with more than 3,000 deceased and more than 1,400 people who have managed to overcome the disease.The National Institute...
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported that the Ebola outbreak declared in mid-May in the east of the country has already surpassed the barrier of 3,000 deaths and is approaching 6,200 confirmed infections in the six provinces affected by the epidemic.In its latest bulletin,...
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) already place the confirmed cases of Ebola at 6,100 linked to the outbreak detected in mid-May in the east of the country, an episode that has caused 2,950 deaths and has spread to central areas, including the strategic city of...
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have updated this Monday the balance of the Ebola outbreak declared in mid-year in the east of the country, which has already left more than 2,900 dead and has surpassed the threshold of 6,000 confirmed infections. The advance of the...
The Ebola outbreak declared in mid-May in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the deadliest in its recent history, has already caused more than 2,862 deaths and totals 5,945 confirmed infections throughout the national territory, according to the updated balance of this Sunday, after a week marked by new...
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have launched a vaccination campaign against Ebola aimed at frontline personnel combating the outbreak declared in mid-May in the east of the country, an episode that already totals almost 5,800 infections and around 2,800 deaths, according to the most recent...
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has urged donor countries and the international community this Thursday to provide more resources to fund the UN's humanitarian response plan in the face of the worst Ebola outbreak recorded in the recent history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)."We...
The Ebola outbreak declared in May in Uganda, originating after the detection of cases days earlier in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is officially considered over this Thursday, once 42 days without additional infections have been completed since the discharge of the last patient treated...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has requested the establishment of a six-month humanitarian truce with the aim of intensifying the response to Ebola and cutting the chain of transmission of the disease. The outbreak, active since mid-May, has already become the deadliest recorded in the history of the Democratic Republic...
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported that the latest Ebola outbreak, declared in mid-May and focused in the eastern region of the country, has already surpassed 5,500 confirmed infections, becoming the deadliest episode recorded so far in the African country.The National Institute of Public...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo faces the most serious health crisis in its recent history against the clock. The Ebola outbreak declared on May 15 has reached 100 days with more than 2,500 deaths and a grim outlook: half of the victims have been recorded in just the last...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo received this Saturday the first shipment of the Ervebo vaccine, in a new attempt to contain the devastating Ebola outbreak declared a hundred days ago, which has already caused nearly 2,500 deaths and more than 5,200 confirmed infections since May 15.The Director-General of the...
The Ebola epidemic hitting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to grow at an exponential rate as one hundred days pass since the official declaration of the outbreak. The disease has already caused 2,516 deaths and affects a geographical area that exceeds the size of France, a scenario...
The organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has denounced that the communities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are not receiving the necessary aid to cope with the Ebola outbreak declared by the Congolese government on May 23 and recognized two days later by the World Health Organization (WHO)."The...
The Ebola outbreak that is hitting the Democratic Republic of the Congo since mid-May is causing a severe rupture of the family fabric in this African country. Since the health emergency was declared, at least 180 children have lost both of their parents or their main caregivers, which amounts to...
The Gavi Alliance for Vaccines has announced the launch of an extraordinary contribution of nearly 11 million euros to strengthen the response to the Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus. This support will be articulated through the shipment of vaccines to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and...