Health Alerts

The number of confirmed Ebola virus disease cases (EVD) has reached 276, with a further 35 deemed probable and 65 more under investigation. CIDRAP reported today that ‘in research developments, scientists yesterday reported durable protection for three Ebola vaccines, including the one currently deployed in the DRC’. But Ebola is not the only crisis in North Kivu. Dr Pete Salama, Deputy Director-General for Emergency Preparedness and Response for the World Health Organization (WHO), tweeted news of a malaria outbreak in the region that is producing up to 2,000 cases per week.  More children have died in this, the country’s third-largest EVD outbreak, mostly from receiving treatment for malaria in traditional healing clinics where EVD patients were also present amid poor infection control. Read more