Kenya’s health minister told a court he had ordered preparations for a US-run Ebola quarantine facility to stop, after being held in contempt for ignoring a previous order to end work.
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KENYA: Youths Protest Outside Ebola Quarantine Centre For Infected US Citizens
Hundreds of youths in Kenya’s central town of Nanyuki on Monday demonstrated against the establishment at the Laikipia Air Base of an Ebola quarantine centre for American citizens exposed to the virus.
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WORLD CUP: DRC Demands FIFA Refund Fans World Cup Tickets Over US Ebola Travel Restrictions
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has officially requested that FIFA reimburse its fans for the 2026 World Cup tickets, as they are now unable to enter the United States due to health restrictions related to the Ebola outbreak.
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DR CONGO: Ebola Makeshift Treatment Centres Set Ablaze As Protesters Demand Access To Bodies Of Dead Relatives
Violence has erupted in eastern DR Congo’s Ituri province after tensions linked to the handling of victims of the latest Ebola outbreak sparked unrest.
Protesters in the town of Rwampara wanted to recover the bodies of relatives who died of Ebola to bury them. When they were denied, they set the hospital on fire, according to local reports.
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DR CONGO: US Doctor Who Contracted Ebola In DRC Flown To Germany For Treatment
An American doctor who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been flown to Germany for treatment, along his wife and four children, as the World Health Organization warned of the “scale and speed” of the outbreak.
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DRC: WHO Begins Ebola Vaccinations As New Outbreak Spreads
The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun vaccinating frontline health workers and contacts of infected individuals in response to a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Kasai Province.
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UGANDA: W.H.O Declare Ebola Outbreak After Death
The World Health Organization on Tuesday declared a new outbreak of Ebola in Uganda after local health authorities confirmed a case of the somewhat rare Sudan strain of the virus.
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UK: Clinical Trials For New Ebola Vaccine Developed By Oxford University
The University of Oxford have begun recruiting for a Phase I trial to test an Ebola vaccine in human volunteers – with the first vaccinations having already taken place.
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EBOLA: WHO Puts Six African Nations On Alert Over New Resurgence
The World Health Organization (WHO) has alerted six African countries to watch out for potential cases of Ebola after fresh cases emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea.
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