World News by Wild Rose

Burning of a Ebola-hit transit camp sends 19,000 fleeing, illustrating the difficulties of controlling epidemic.

In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a mobile lab has been operating for two weeks, a welcome relief to staff at the nearby Ebola treatment centre who said that getting a test result used to take 72 hours.

Karondwa was buried in his native Lubero, as calls grow for an investigation into his death and for greater trust between communities and health workers fighting the Ebola outbreak.

Routine healthcare has been severely disrupted in communities hit hardest by Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo, where fear of infection and pressure on hospitals are stymieing pediatric immunizations and discouraging patients from seeking maternity and other basic care.

Fatalities near 4,000 across the DRC as health workers battle community anger and a vaccine-resistant strain.

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 8,000, while 3,901 people have died in the current outbreak, according to government data released on Monday.

Cases fell 26% this month in Ituri province, which has until now been the epicenter of the outbreak. But North Kivu, which neighbors Ituri, saw a worrying 73% increase over that same period

The Ebola outbreak has spread to new areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with 10 countries at high risk.

Health workers struggle as new Ebola cases are found in border regions of South Ubangi and Haut-Uele.

Victor Kingombe died at an Ebola treatment centre in Kisangani, three months after Tshopo province first reported cases.

As the Ebola outbreak in the DRC reaches unprecedented levels, disease surveillance is spreading beyond the country's borders. The International Organization for Migration tracks the epidemic along major travel routes, with the help of neighbouring governments.

In Kisangani, one of the latest health zones in the Democratic Republic of Congo to be hit by the Ebola epidemic, Ebola response teams hosted a meeting with deaf people on Monday to raise awareness of the signs and risks of Ebola.

The outbreak has now affected 63 health zones with an overall case fatality rate of 48.2 per cent.

Congo began vaccinating health care workers against Ebola on Saturday in Bunia, the epicenter of the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease in the country’s history.

DR Congo is rolling out vaccine trials for health workers at the centre of the country’s Ebola crisis.

50,000 frontline staff to receive a jab for a different Ebola strain, with 20,000 enrolled in a one-year clinical trial.

At least a dozen attacks have taken place against facilities involved in Ebola care, primarily due to fear of the disease, misinformation, and mistrust of health care workers

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said transmission was declining in the hardest-hit areas of Ituri province, while South Kivu has reported no new cases since May.

As Ebola threatens parts of Africa, the Federation of West African Medical Laboratory Science opened its first conference Wednesday, in Lomé, Togo, to discuss the challenges posed by epidemics in Africa

The DRC faces a growing Ebola threat as cases soar in North Kivu, despite progress in other regions, says Tedros

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that the fight against the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo was showing “encouraging signs" but that the epidemic was "far from over". More than 7,000 cases have been reported across seven provinces as of September 11.

Ebola has reached a seventh DR Congo province after an infected man travelled through Rwanda and Uganda.

DRC detected the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo virus in mid-May; nearly 3,400 people have since died.

Case found in northwestern province of South-Ubangi bordering the Central African Republic and Congo-Brazzaville.

Congolese authorities inaugurated a new treatment centre in the city of Kisangani as they race to ramp up surveillance, diagnostic and treatment capacity

Ebola has now spread to a seventh province in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a 23-year-old man tested positive for the virus following a cross-country journey that included travel through neighboring Rwanda and Uganda.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has claimed more than 3,000 lives, according to latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO). To support the fight against Ebola, WHO is coordinating and funding the expansion of the Lita treatment centre in Ituri province.

As the Ebola epidemic continues to spread through eastern DR Congo, the death toll now stands at more than 3,000 people. Because of the risk of contagion, victims have to buried in accordance with strict protocols.

In eastern DR Congo, Ebola burial teams are racing against time as the outbreak continues to spread. They face a dangerous mission: safely burying victims while dealing with distrust and threats from local communities. The response is further complicated by the ongoing rebel conflict in the region.

Roche Holding AG plans to deploy new laboratory equipment in the epicenter of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola epidemic as authorities struggle to contain a virus that has repeatedly outrun the response.