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The rapid spread of Africa’s Ebola outbreak is driven by a new strain known as Bundibugyo. Maps, charts, and data visualziations detail its spread.
This outbreak is being called "the perfect storm." How did it start, what are the characteristics of the strain that's causing it and how much of a threat is it to global health?
Amid another Ebola outbreak, hundreds of Africans are sick, displaced, fearful, or dead. Health care workers across Central Africa are once again caring for patients in overstretched hospitals with limited supplies,
There is one handwashing station and one infrared thermometer to fight the Ebola epidemic in this camp for 10,000 displaced people in Bunia, a city at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo.
The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it’s at the center of a rapidly widening epidemic in Africa.
Minister of Communication Patrick Muyaya -- speaking from the epicenter of the outbreak in Bunia in the DRC's northeastern Ituri province -- said on Friday that the country has experience dealing with many previous Ebola outbreaks and is equipped to get this outbreak under control.
As Ebola cases trigger global alarm and countries like the US tighten travel restrictions, Indian health experts are questioning why travellers from outbreak-hit nations are still being allowed
In an Ebola outbreak, hours matter. Yet the response to the deadly epidemic in Congo is lagging – and health officials are missing thousands of people