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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Twenty cases of Ebola have been recorded in three days in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where deadly violence is hampering efforts to end the 16-month-old epidemic, the authorities said on Thursday. Ten cases were notified on Wednesday alone in Mabalako in North Kivu province, after six on Tuesday, according to the Multisectoral Committee for Epidemic […]
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Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday introduced a second vaccine to fight the deadly Ebola virus in the east of the country, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity said. It said the new vaccine, produced by a Belgian subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, is aimed at protecting about 50,000 people over a period of four months. More than […]
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Doctors will use a second Ebola vaccine from November in three eastern provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo to fight the deadly virus, medical officials said Sunday. “It’s time to use the new Ad26-ZEBOV-GP vaccine, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s Belgian subsidiary,” said Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, who leads the national anti-Ebola operation in the DRC. It will arrive in […]
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Elvis Duran gets by with a little help from his friends. The Elvis Duran and the Morning Show host opened up in an exclusive interview with Us Weekly’s Marc Lupo about how his pal Dr. Mehmet Oz inspired him to lose 140 lbs in an effort to save his life. How Ageless Kate Beckinsale Keeps Her Body in Such Amazing […]
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An electron micrograph of the measles virus. Credit: CDC/ Courtesy of Cynthia S. Goldsmith The UN health agency on Wednesday said it would carry out an emergency vaccination campaign in six DR Congo provinces to counter an outbreak of measles that has killed 3,600 since the start of the year. Authorities have registered more than 183,800 suspected cases of the […]
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Have no fear! When it comes to talking to kids about sex, Dr. Ruth Westheimer has all the answers for moms and dads. “You can’t avoid it because it’s the most interesting subject in the world,” the sex therapist, 91, told Us Weekly exclusively on Wednesday, August 21, while promoting her Sex For Dummies book. “Here’s what I did: I […]
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain A child has died from Ebola in DR Congo’s South Kivu, health authorities said Monday, the second person to succumb to the virus since the epidemic spread to the eastern province. The announcement last week of the first confirmed cases in South Kivu revived concerns that the highly contagious disease could cross the porous borders of […]
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A cholera epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 127 people since February, while a further 22 have died in Niger, officials said on Wednesday. “A total of 2,100 patients are currently being treated and since February we have registered 125 deaths,” said Hippolyte Mutombo Mbwebwe, health minister in the eastern Kasai region. Ten more cases, including two […]
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People in Mbandaka in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were fearful and angry Friday after an Ebola outbreak spread from remote villages to their densely-populated city. A wave of concern rippled through the Congo River port city after the World Health Organization (WHO) and the DRC’s health ministry on Thursday reported a confirmed case of the deady viral disease […]
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World agencies and neighbouring countries on Friday hiked their response to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the toll from the notorious disease mounted. A World Health Organization (WHO) emergency panel met to determine whether the outbreak was “a public health event of international concern”—a move that would step up global action. The death toll […]
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