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Jan
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Uganda declares itself Ebola-free

Uganda declares itself Ebola-free

NEWS
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA UGANDA declared the end of a nearly four-month Ebola outbreak that it briefly struggled to contain but was then able to swiftly bring under control despite the absence of a proven vaccine against the viral strain in question. "We have successfully controlled the spread of Ebola in Uganda," Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said during a ceremony to mark the outbreak's end. Aceng said this was Uganda's eighth Ebola outbreak since 2000 when the country recorded its first and most deadly one that killed more than half of the 425 people it infected. The latest outbreak killed 55…
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Mar
24
2021
By The African Mirror
DRC on the brink of being Ebola free

DRC on the brink of being Ebola free

NEWS
FISTON MAHAMBA The Democratic Republic of Congo released its last confirmed Ebola patients from treatment centers on Monday, health authorities said, beginning a 42-day countdown to declaring the country free of the virus. Monday's release of six patients from treatment centers in the North Kivu region could mark the end of a month-long resurgence of the 2018-20 epidemic, which killed more than 2,200 people before it was initially declared over in June 2020. Twelve cases have been reported since the virus re-emerged at the beginning of February, killing six people. It's been three weeks since North Kivu health authorities have…
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