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Ebola virus

Ebola virus
Ebola is a disease of humans and other primates caused by ebola viruses that typically occurs in outbreaks in tropical regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. The death rate for humans with the disease could be as high as 90 per cent.
A quarantine facility has been prepared at Penny’s Bay on Lantau Island as authorities step up efforts to guard against the potential spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong steps up Ebola precautions, prepares Lantau Island quarantine facility

Centre for Health Protection prepares Penny’s Bay site and response plan, including tracing, as central Africa outbreak declared global emergency.

Disease

WHO warns of ‘scale and speed’ of deadly Ebola outbreak

Africa

US to screen for Ebola at airports as American worker is infected

Disease

Silent spread of rare and deadly Ebola strain exposes surveillance gaps

A four-week detection delay for the Bundibugyo variant has left dozens dead in DR Congo and triggered a global alert.

Health workers in protective suits tend to an Ebola victim in an isolation tent in 2019. Photo: AP
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong urged to trigger travel alert to DR Congo, Uganda amid Ebola outbreak

Infectious disease expert says more preventive measures necessary, noting frequent exchanges between mainland Chinese and central African cities.

Africa

US citizens in DR Congo potentially exposed to Ebola, report says

CDC escalates its response to the latest deadly outbreak after the WHO declares an international emergency.

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Hong Kong society

Hong Kong ramps up health checks for travellers from Africa after Ebola outbreak

Move follows WHO declaring outbreak of deadly disease on continent a ‘public health emergency of international concern’.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of two countries affected by the latest Ebola outbreak. Photo: Xinhua
DR Congo

Ebola outbreak in Congo, Uganda declared an international health emergency

The Bundibugyo strain, which killed more than 80 people, has no specific treatments or vaccines.

Africa

Congo Ebola outbreak: constant burials as death toll reaches 80

Congo has experience in managing Ebola outbreaks but often faces logistical challenges to get expertise and supplies to affected regions.

Africa

Africa calls multi-nation health meeting amid fatal Ebola outbreak

There have been 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far in the DRC, around five months after the last outbreak was declared over.

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Health workers dressed in protective gear work at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni, Congo, in 2019. File photo: AP
United States

WHO chief urges pandemic accord action after US withdrawal

The WHO’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that the next pandemic is ‘a matter of when, not if’.

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A nurse prepares a dose during an Ebola trial vaccination campaign in Kampala, Uganda. Photo: AFP
Japan

‘More devastating than atomic bomb’: fears mount over Japanese lab in Nagasaki

The laboratory, which will study some of the deadliest viruses, has prompted concerns over a repeat of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Africa

Uganda nurse dies from Ebola in first outbreak since 2022

Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed hundreds.

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Canada

Canada fired 2 scientists for sharing information with China, report says

Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, were escorted out of the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg before being sacked.

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Officials concluded that Xiangguo Qiu and her husband “a realistic and credible threat to Canada’s economic security”, a newspaper report said. Photo: Handout
Diplomacy

Opinion | From wars to global warming, world is crying out for collective action

Amid increased geopolitical strife, our interconnected world requires a collaborative approach on global warming, wars, infrastructure, public health, trade, and more, to safeguard our shared home.

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A boat sits stranded on the dried-up Alhajuela Lake in Colon province, 50km north of Panama City, on April 21. The scarcity of rainfall due to global warming has forced the Panama Canal to reduce the number of ships passing through the interoceanic waterway, in the midst of a water supply crisis that threatens the future of this maritime route. Photo: AFP
Medicine

The next pandemic? WHO working on list of pathogens to watch

The UN health agency is convening over 300 scientists to figure out which viruses and bacteria could potentially spark another international outbreak.

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Disease

WHO declares outbreak of deadly Ebola-like Marburg virus in Ghana

No treatment or vaccine exists for Marburg, which is almost as deadly as Ebola. Its symptoms include high fever as well as internal and external bleeding.

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World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO priority is to prevent sexual exploitation, says chief

‘Things are changing [but] it is not enough. We’re just starting,’ chief Tedros Ghebreyesus about making far-reaching changes following horrifying revelations of widespread abuse by humanitarian workers in 2020.

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Ebola survivors in the Congo, where others were the victims of sexual abuse by WHO workers. Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus pandemic: All stories

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Africa

No evidence that Ivory Coast patient had Ebola virus, says WHO

The initial positive test on August 14 led Ivory Coast to declare its first Ebola outbreak in more than 25 years. Ebola typically kills about half of those it infects.

Africa

Citizens displaced by Congo volcano eruption now face cholera risk

Fears of a second eruption spurred the government to issue an evacuation order on Thursday that sent 400,000 residents fleeing.

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Internally displaced Congolese collect water outside a church in Sake town, near Goma, in Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: Reuters
Canada

Viral security drama of Chinese-Canadian scientist who helped cure Ebola

Mystery surrounds Dr Qiu Xiangguo and her husband amid a two-year police investigation, a shipment of viruses to Wuhan, internet conspiracy theories, and a wall of official silence.

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Qiu Xiangguo, seen in protective gear at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory, is at the centre of a controversy over alleged security breaches at the Winnipeg facility. Photo: Rideau Hall Foundation
World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO warns of ‘high risk’ of Ebola spreading to Guinea’s neighbours

The WHO said Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Liberia were not fully prepared for an Ebola outbreak.

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Africa

Video | Ebola resurfaces in Africa

Africa

Guinea sees first Ebola deaths since 2016, as DR Congo battles outbreak

The West African country was the epicentre of an Ebola epidemic five years ago that left over 11,000 dead across the region.

A medical worker puts on protective gear in an isolation ward of a hospital in Guinea, which is seeing the first resurgence of the Ebola haemorrhagic fever since a 2013-2016 epidemic left thousands dead. Photo: AFP
Coronavirus pandemic

Explainer | What are the coronavirus mRNA vaccines and how do they work?

Two of the currently available vaccinations against Covid-19 use a relatively new technology which has not been approved before.

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What are mRNA vaccines, how do they work against Covid-19 and what are their implications for public health? Photo: AFP
Coronavirus China

Chinese data can provide key to origins of coronavirus, WHO team says

Investigation in China ‘not about finding a guilty country … [but] trying to understand what happened’, German scientist says.

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Coronavirus China

China’s CanSino trials Covid-19 vaccine in ‘high disease burden’ nations

The company’s phase three trial of its Ad5-nCoV vaccine candidate is being tested on some 40,000 participants in Russia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Mexico.

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