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 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 Ministry of Agriculture of the Generalitat has communicated this Thursday the appearance of five new cases of African swine fever (ASF) in Catalonia in the last seven days, all located within the high-risk area and after two weeks without any cases being detected.According to the department, three of the...
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Generalitat has communicated this Thursday the appearance of 5 new cases of African swine fever (ASF) in Catalonia during the last week, all of them located within the area classified as high risk and after a period of two weeks without registering any positive...
The International Coordination Group (ICG, for its acronym in English) on Vaccine Supply has announced the launch of a global initiative aimed at establishing a vaccine reserve against mpox, in order to ensure agile and fair access when countries face new outbreaks.This international reserve, available to all States, is expected...
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 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 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 United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned of the concerning proportion of children among the suspected cases of the first mpox outbreak detected in Guinea-Bissau.Although the seven confirmed infections so far correspond to adults, half of the 46 suspected cases are under 15 years old, and health authorities fear...
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 health authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have updated this Thursday the balance of the Ebola outbreak declared in mid-May, placing the death toll above 2,400, while the number of confirmed infections already exceeds 5,200 people."In the last 24 hours, 103 new cases of the disease...
The Ebola outbreak declared in mid-May in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has transformed into the deadliest recorded in the country, after surpassing the threshold of 2,300 deaths and leaving behind the toll of the previous major Ebola outbreak, recorded between 2018 and 2020.According to the figures released by...
The Ebola outbreak declared in mid-May in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the deadliest recorded so far in the country, continues to leave victims: 2,214 deceased in 54 health areas, with special incidence in the province of Ituri, in the northeast, considered the epicenter of the epidemic.According to the...
The Ebola outbreak declared in mid-May in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the deadliest recorded so far in the country, continues to leave victims: 2,184 deceased in 54 health areas, with a special incidence in the northeastern province of Ituri, which has become the main focus of the epidemic.According...
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have updated this Tuesday the balance of the most severe Ebola outbreak recorded in the country, placing the number of deceased at 2,011 and confirmed cases at 4,381, according to the latest data released by the Public Health Institute.Between 60...
A group of specialists from the National Center for Microbiology (CNM) of ISCIII and the Area of Respiratory Diseases of the Network Biomedical Research Center (CIBER-ISCIII) has disseminated a scientific work that details how serotype 4 of pneumococcus, originating in the context of an outbreak, has spread throughout Spain in...
The authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo updated on Monday the balance of the Ebola outbreak, the most severe recorded so far in the country, and place the number of deceased at 1,960 and the confirmed cases at 4,294, according to the latest evening report from the Public...
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC, for its acronym in English) has reported that, since the beginning of the year, there have been 219,522 diagnoses of Chikungunya virus disease and 81 linked deaths in 25 countries, excluding the States of the European Union and the European Economic...
The largest Ebola outbreak recorded so far in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has caused, since it was declared in mid-May, 1,916 deaths and 4,209 confirmed infections. This is stated in the latest evening report from the Congolese Public Health Institute, which includes data up to last Friday and...
The largest recorded Ebola outbreak to date in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has caused a total of 1,850 deaths and 4,053 confirmed infections since it was declared in mid-May, according to the most recent balance released by the country's Public Health Institute.The World Health Organization warned late last...
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Generalitat has communicated the appearance of 2 new cases of African swine fever (ASF) in Catalonia during the last week, both located within the area classified as high risk.According to the department's details this Thursday in a statement, one of the positives has been...