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Ebola

Ebola is a virus originating in wild animals in western Africa. It is transmitted through bodily fluids. The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreaks in West Africa's Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia killed more than 11,000 people.

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Marburg-Virus electronmicrograph

Marburg outbreaks: One of the world’s deadliest viruses

While outbreaks of Marburg virus are rare, the viral hemorrhagic fever can be fatal. Here's what you need to know.
ScienceOctober 4, 2024
Human and Influenza virus blowing respiratory simulation from air

Top 10 most dangerous viruses in the world

Although COVID-19 is very contagious, its fatality rate is relatively low in comparison with these ten viruses.
ScienceFebruary 26, 2024
An elderly woman casts her ballot in Freetown, Sierra Leone on June 24, 2023

Sierra Leone presidential election marred by delays, chaos

Some polling stations opened several hours late, with local media reporting confusion among crowds of voters.
PoliticsJune 24, 2023
Health workers in protective gear prepare paperwork for Ebola vaccines in a hospital in Guinea

75 years of the WHO: Not a 'global health police'

The World Health Organization was established on April 7, 1948. It's had major successes ― and failures.
HealthApril 6, 2023
USA New York | Valentinstag

AfricaLink on Air - 14 February 2023

Love in a Cameroonian refugee camp +++ Countering Fake News in the Nigerian Election
PoliticsFebruary 14, 202329:59 min
A teacher at a school against a poster on the wall with information on how to defeat Ebola virus, October 27, 2022

Uganda declares end to Ebola outbreak

Uganda put two districts under lockdown, but ramped up contact tracing elsewhere, ultimately defeating the virus.
HealthJanuary 11, 2023
Red Cross worker creates a 'green zone' before donning PPE prior to burying a 3-year-old boy suspected of dying from Ebola

Uganda lifts Ebola-related lockdown

After two months of curbs, 142 cases of the virus and 56 related deaths, Uganda is now lifting its Ebola lockdown.
HealthDecember 18, 2022
Red Cross workers clean ambulances prior to transporting Ebola victims

Ebola hits Uganda hard with a 'worrying' trend

With no vaccine for the strain of Ebola currently circulating in Uganda, this outbreak could be one of the worst ever.
ScienceNovember 10, 2022
Health care workers outside a hospital in Uganda's Mubende district

Ebola outbreak in Uganda: Is everything under control?

Ebola is spreading rapidly in Uganda, where aid groups say cashflow issues are slowing the fight to stop the virus.
ScienceOctober 27, 2022
Health workers outside a hospital building

East Africa vigilant as Uganda locks down Ebola epicenter

Authorities in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda are working to keep Ebola out after the virus claimed 19 lives in Uganda.
HealthOctober 18, 2022
Bonn Nigerianer in Bonn protestieren auf dem UN-Campus

AfricaLink on Air – 17 October 2022

Why Nigeria's federal prosecutor failed to convict Nnamdi Kanu? +++ Nigeria floods toll has passed 600
PoliticsOctober 17, 202229:59 min
DW Podcast | Science Unscripted

Weekly roundup — Damage control

Fasting? Low-carb? Or both? New data gives a pretty clear answer. Also, what 'phubbing' does to your relationships.
ScienceOctober 16, 202229:59 min
Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | Putschgerüchte

AfricaLink on Air — 30 September 2022

Burkina Faso's mutiny +++Ebola kills five in Uganda++Impact of South Africa's blackouts
PoliticsSeptember 30, 202230:00 min
Uganda Ebola outbreak

Sudan Ebola virus: What do we know?

How does the new Ebola outbreak in Uganda differ from other outbreaks?
ScienceSeptember 30, 2022
A woman in protective gear takes the temperature of a young woman and man in Uganda

Uganda prepares for a new Ebola outbreak

Though experts believe that the country is well prepared to handle the outbreak, a new epidemic cannot be ruled out yet.
HealthSeptember 28, 2022
Elfenbeinküste | Impfaktion gegen Ebola

AfricaLink on Air — 20 September 2022

Uganda confirms first Ebola death in 3 years+++Tensions rise in Somalia as clans fight against Al-Shabab militants
PoliticsSeptember 20, 202229:59 min
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of filamentous Ebola virus particles.

Uganda declares Ebola outbreak

Uganda has confirmed its first death from Ebola virus since 2019, declaring an outbreak.
HealthSeptember 20, 2022
Microscopic image of Ebola virus

WHO recommends new Ebola treatments

The World Health Organization has recommended two drugs against Ebola that studies show significantly reduce mortality.
HealthAugust 19, 2022
Photo of the Marburg virus

Marburg virus outbreak declared in Ghana

For the first time in the country's history, the Marburg virus has been detected in Ghana. Here's what you need to know.
ScienceJuly 19, 2022
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Weekly roundup — There's something missing

A look at why some people aren't that interesting to be around — and also, the 'infection app' that doesn't exist.
ScienceMay 29, 202230:00 min
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Cloudy with a chance of COVID

Here's a riddle: How do you predict the spread of a virus from a few hundred miles above the earth?
ScienceMay 27, 202219:55 min
Uganda Schriftsteller Kakwenza Rukirabashaija

AfricaLink on Air — 09 May 2022

Topics: Uganda: Court hearing of Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, fatter paycheck for Kenya workers, Liberia's vaccine shortages
PoliticsMay 9, 202229:59 min
A healthcare worker from the World Health Organization prepares to give an Ebola vaccination to a front line aid worker in Democratic Republic of Congo

New Ebola case confirmed in Congo

A new case of Ebola has been reported by authorities in Congo , just four months after the end of the last outbreak.
HealthApril 23, 2022
A medical worker checks the quarantine area of the Matanda Hospital in Butembo in North Kivu province, DR Congo earlier this year

Congo declares end of latest Ebola outbreak

The Democratic Republic of Congo said the latest outbreak of Ebola was over.
HealthDecember 16, 2021
Bildergalerie über die Varianten des neuen Coronavirus

The politics of naming COVID

From Spanish flu to the Wuhan virus, naming diseases after their country of origin has sparked xenophobia and racism.
CultureDecember 2, 2021
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

WHO to deploy experts to prevent sex abuse after scandal

The World Health Organization has been under pressure after a sexual abuse scandal in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
HealthOctober 16, 2021
A medical worker checks the quarantine area of the Matanda Hospital in Butembo, where the first case of Ebola died, in the North Kivu province of Congo Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021.

WHO investigates new Ebola case in Congo

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said 100 people were being monitored after a boy died from the disease.
HealthOctober 9, 2021
Healthcare workers carry a coffin with a baby, suspected of dying from Ebola, in Beni, North Kivu Province of Democratic Republic of Congo

Donors urge WHO's swift action on Congo sexual abuse scandal

Some WHO employees are accused of sexually abusing victims during an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
CrimeOctober 2, 2021
Marthe Wandou Preisträgerin 2021 des Right Livelihood Award

AfricaLink on Air - 29 September 2021

Cameroon’s Marthe Wandou wins 2021 Right Livelihood Award for fighting sexual violence and promoting women’s rights.
PoliticsSeptember 29, 202129:27 min
Health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the Ebola epidemic

WHO report finds 80 alleged abuse cases in DRC Ebola mission

Some 30 women had accused WHO employees of sexual exploitation and abuse.
CrimeSeptember 28, 2021
A health worker receives a vaccine against Ebola at a hospital after a case of Ebola was confirmed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast scrambles to vaccinate after Ebola case

Ivory Coast vaccinates against Ebola after its first known case in more than a quarter of a century.
HealthAugust 17, 2021
Medical staff in Liberia receive training to treat Ebola

Ivory Coast reports first Ebola case in decades

The WHO has expressed "immense concern" about an Ebola outbreak in the country's largest city, Abidjan.
HealthAugust 14, 2021
DR Congo Ebola

DR Congo declares end of latest Ebola outbreak

UNICEF is cautiously optimistic that the virus has been brought under control from a vaccine developed by Merck.
HealthMay 3, 2021
Person in medical gear stands outside quarantine area of a hospital in Butembo, the Congo

Ebola outbreak in Guinea: 4 things you need to know

Five years after it was declared Ebola-free, Guinea has declared an "epidemic situation." Here's what you need to know.
HealthFebruary 15, 2021
Ebola in DR Congo

Guinea declares new Ebola outbreak

The rare but deadly virus causes fever, aches, diarrhea, and sometimes bleeding.
HealthFebruary 14, 2021
WHO said that it was not unusual to detect sporadic cases after major outbreaks

DR Congo records first Ebola death in three months

Researchers are examining samples from the patient for potential links to the previous outbreak, WHO said.
HealthFebruary 7, 2021
A child being vaccinated against Ebola ion Beni, Congo

No profit, no pharma?

A new ranking of pharmaceutical companies has said they are improving access to medicine in poorer countries — slowly.
ScienceJanuary 26, 2021
A plane is releasing food aid over South Sudan

World in Progress: Forgotten crises

This week we want to turn our attention to crises that don't get the attention they deserve.
Human RightsNovember 11, 202029:59 min
A doctor is drawing blood from a patient's finger

World in Progress: Major health emergencies in 2020

We are still in the middle of a raging pandemic, fighting the coronavirus outbreak all over the world. But COVID-19 wasn't the only health emergency in 2020. The World Health Organization says they responded to over 60 emergencies, including major outbreaks of the neglected tropical disease chikungunya in Chad, yellow fewer in Togo and Gabon, measles in Mexico, among others.
Human RightsNovember 11, 202008:39 min
Spanish nurses hugging

Regeneron coronavirus treatment trials promising

The dual-antibody treatment worked best on patients who did not mount an immune system response to the virus.
HealthSeptember 30, 2020
Coronavirus graffiti in Kenya

COVID-19 in Africa: Milder than expected — but why?

The COVID-19 pandemic has not hit Africa as badly as experts initially feared. Several theories have been put forth.
ScienceSeptember 14, 2020
DW Podcast | Science Unscripted

Why are Africa's coronavirus numbers so low?

African countries seem to be experiencing lower levels of COVID-19 infections (and fatalities). The question is — why?
ScienceSeptember 7, 202010:59 min
WHO polio vaccination campaign in Syria, oral polio vaccine

Polio eradication in Africa: Challenges ahead

Africa is free of wild poliovirus. But the fight isn't over. Experts say it may be time to reevaluate disease control.
ScienceAugust 25, 2020
Bobi Wine, der umstrittene Popstar aus Uganda, wurde Parlamentarier

AfricaLink on Air - 22 July 2020

Uganda: Bobi Wine launches his political party
July 22, 202029:59 min
Al-Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud

AfricaLink on Air - 14 July 2020

ICC trial begins of alleged Malian terrorist for Timbuktu destruction
July 14, 202030:00 min
Malawi Lilongwe | Annullierung | Lazarus Chakwera

AfricaLink on Air – 25 June 2020

Liberia COVID-19 Treatment Center runs out of capacity +++ DR Congo declares end to Ebola epidemic in east
June 25, 202030:00 min
Kongo: Erneuter Ausbruch von Ebola

When COVID-19 and Ebola strike at the same time

How can the DRC battle two infectious diseases simultaneously?
HealthJune 5, 202009:42 min
A health worker in DRC prepares an injection

DR Congo's relentless fight against Ebola

The Democratic Republic of Congo is battling a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the northwestern part of the country.
HealthJune 3, 2020
Südsudan Leser der Zeitung 'Juba Monitor'

AfricaLink on Air - 03 June 2020

Africa reactions to killing of George Floyd +++ Cameroon journalist Samuel Wazizi reportedly dead
June 3, 202030:00 min
Ebola Virus

Ebola: Congo declares new epidemic

"COVID-19 is not the only health threat people face," WHO chief Tedros said.
HealthJune 1, 2020