News | Ebola
| Ebola in DRC: Nearing control of the outbreak, but vigilance still required | |
MSF - October 1, 2007 | |
 | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has seen a decrease in the number of admissions in its isolation unit in Kampungu, a village of 9,000 inhabitants which is the epicentre of the outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). |
| Medics Struggle to Limit DRC Ebola Outbreak | |
VOA News - September 21, 2007 | |
| A suspected Ebola death has been reported in another province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, raising fears that the virus may be spreading. But the World Health Organization says that with new mobile laboratories in the country and an effective awareness campaign taking place, isolating Ebola cases should now become easier. |
| Ebola outbreak "contained" - Kabila | |
IRIN - September 14, 2007 | |
 | Measures have been taken to prevent the spread of Ebola following the deaths of at least 160 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo's southern province of Kasai Occidental during the past two months, President Joseph Kabila said. |
| Military Escalation Likely in DRC Say Analysts | |
VOA News - September 14, 2007 | |
The United Nations says Congolese president Joseph Kabila's latest comments on getting rebel forces to join the army marked a positive step towards bringing peace to the volatile North Kivu region, which has seen heavy fighting in recent weeks. Mr. Kabila called on the rebel fighters to rejoin the national army and said he would hold talks to solve the conflict in Kivu. | |
| Ebola virus outbreak in central DR Congo claims 160 lives | |
UN News - September 12, 2007 | |
| At least 160 people have died in an outbreak of the highly lethal haemorrhagic Ebola virus in the centre of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, announcing that it is rushing medical and supplies to the region to try to contain the disease. |
| Outbreak in Kasai Occidental confirmed as Ebola | |
IRIN - September 11, 2007 | |
 | Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have identified a fever outbreak that has claimed at least 167 lives in the southern province of Kasai Occidental as Ebola. |
| Suspected haemorrhagic fever claims 100 in Kasai | |
IRIN - August 30, 2007 | |
| An epidemic suspected to be haemorrhagic fever has broken out in the Mweka area, about 100km north-west of Kananga, the administrative centre of Kasai Occidental province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with more than 100 deaths, according to health authorities. |
| Government acts to stop Marburg virus spreading from Angola | |
IRIN - March 30, 2005 | |
In response to fears that a recent outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Angola could spread across the 1,750-km border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Congolese minister of health, Emile Bongeli, said on Tuesday that the government had set up a quarantine zone along the frontier. | |
