Ebola

The true reach of the Ebola outbreak in central Africa could be much wider than the official figures published by central African authorities, the World Health Organization is warning. 

The outbreak is threatening to overwhelm health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while nine cases have now been confirmed in neighbouring Uganda. 

It comes as health facilities in some of the worst-hit regions are attacked amid ongoing violence. 

The World Health Organization raises its assessment of the outbreak going nation-wide as a province in the Congo's east bans funerals and suspends the local football league.

The US has introduced new restrictions on travellers from countries exposed to an Ebola outbreak in Africa, requiring them to enter through Washington DC.

The Congo football team cancels its farewell in Kinshasa as the US clarified what the rules would be for players and staff entering the country for the World Cup.

The cash-strapped World Health Organization is sending a team of experts to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as hundreds of cases of Ebola are suspected.

An outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa has been declared an 'emergency of international concern' by the World Health Organization. 

Jane Halton is the chair for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and she speaks to Sarah Ferguson about the outbreak. 

The WHO has declared a global health emergency after more than 80 cases of Ebola were confirmed across two African countries. Here's why the organisation is calling for preparedness, not panic.

A high-stakes mission was undertaken at Concord Hospital this week — an exercise to test how multiple government agencies would react to any future infectious diseases outbreak.

Congo has 28 suspected cases of Ebola, but the World Health Organization expects that number to increase.

The administration also plans to scale back efforts to combat malaria, according to documents, but would continue grants for drugs that treat HIV and tuberculosis.

Health authorities say they've identified at least 44 contacts of the deceased, including 30 hospital staff and patients. 

Health officials are working to contain the highly infectious, Ebola-like disease, for which there is no approved vaccine.

Ugandan authorities are struggling to contain an outbreak of the Sudan strain of Ebola, which cannot be vaccinated against, as it hits the capital of Kampala.

WHO's preliminary testing shows a link between the new case and the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic. 

Guinea's Ebola outbreak, which infected 16 people and killed 12, is over says the WHO.

Guinea has declared a new Ebola outbreak, the first resurgence of the disease there since the world's worst outbreak in 2013-2016. It comes as the nation's health system struggles to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have confirmed another Ebola outbreak in the country's east, the fourth in less than three years.

November likely marks 12 months of life with the pandemic, but the most fundamental questions, like where it came from and who its first victim was, remain unanswered, writes Catherine Taylor.