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Ebola might be a chronic infection – but here’s why we shouldn’t panic

Ebola might be a chronic infection – but here’s why we shouldn’t panic

EBOLA is back in Guinea in West Africa, five years after the largest Ebola epidemic ever known ended – but it has not come back the way we expected it to. CONNOR BAMFORD, Research Fellow, Virology, Queen's University Belfast Eighteen people are reported to have been infected, of which nine have died. Although vaccines against Ebola exist and have been rolled out, there is the fear that these small clusters of infection could ignite into something much, much larger. What’s unusual about the virus that has caused this new outbreak is that it doesn’t seem to have come from an…
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Calls for fast action after Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, Congo

Calls for fast action after Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, Congo

OBI ANYADIKE TWO new outbreaks of Ebola in two weeks – first in the Democratic Republic of Congo and now in Guinea – have sent health teams scrambling to try to contain the spread of the deadly disease, ramping up contact tracing and medical support to local authorities.  Guinea declared an Ebola epidemic on 14 February after three people died and four others became ill in the rural southeast of the country – the first reported outbreak in West Africa since a region-wide pandemic ended five years ago after claiming more than 11,000 lives. The initial case in Guinea’s new outbreak involved a…
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Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak, sees lessons for COVID fight

Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak, sees lessons for COVID fight

DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo announced the end of an almost six-month Ebola outbreak in the west of the country as health authorities looked to apply lessons from the successful response to the fight against COVID-19 in Africa. The outbreak, which infected 130 people and killed 55, emerged in June, weeks before a separate Ebola epidemic in the east drew to a close. That one killed more than 2,200 people, the second-most in the disease's history. "I am pleased to solemnly declare the end of the 11th epidemic of Ebola virus disease in Equateur Province," Health Minister Eteni Longondo told a…
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