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KAMPALA, Uganda -- Uganda's president extended a six-week lockdown Saturday on two districts at the epicentre of an an Ebola outbreak that has claimed 55 lives but said its spread was being curbed. A student gets his temperature checked before riding a chartered bus home after a directive of the...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Monday confirmed a new case of the Ebola virus in the northeastern North Kivu Province, the health ministry said in a statement. File photo taken on March 21, 2021 shows a medical worker vaccinating a local...

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The World Health Organization said Friday that two existing treatments dramatically reduced deaths from Ebola and should be given to people of all ages suffering from the often-fatal haemorrhagic disease. Publishing its first-ever guidelines on which therapeutics to use...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), bringing the total number of the confirmed cases to three since the 14th Ebola outbreak was declared in the country in late April, the World Health...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo -- A positive case of Ebola virus disease has been reported in Wangata Health Zone of the Equateur province, located in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), confirmed Saturday DRC's Health Minister Jean-Jacques Mbungani. In December 2021,...