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– European Commission has agreed to purchase €2.1 million worth of PCR tests to aid the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak. These open-platform diagnostics will support infection detection efforts and enhance laboratory capacity amid the crisis. The procurement was coordinated with

– The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been allocated 70,000 Ervebo Ebola vaccine doses as the Bundibugyo outbreak continues to grow. As of Aug. 18, Congolese officials reported 5,208 confirmed cases and 2,476 deaths. The outbreak now impacts 56

– The World Health Organization states that Congo’s Ebola outbreak can still be controlled within three months if response teams are provided with sufficient resources. The latest official data reports 5,021 confirmed cases and 2,378 deaths as of Aug. 16.

– The Democratic Republic of the Congo documented 26,064,143 malaria cases in 2025. During the same year, the country also recorded 29,938 fatalities linked to the disease. Guy Esebe Dembo, deputy director of the National Malaria Control Programme, presented these

– Global health authorities announced on Friday that the outbreak of Ebola in Central Africa is escalating at an unprecedented pace. The World Health Organization confirmed that if community transmission is not swiftly contained and regional supply chain issues are

– The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has resulted in 1,916 fatalities and 4,209 confirmed infections, according to official data available through Aug. 7. This figure increases the previous death toll by 29, surpassing the 1,887 reported earlier. Health officials

– Chad’s health authorities have verified an urgent waterborne health crisis that has resulted in 13 fatalities since official public notices were issued late last month. The Ministry of Public Health of Chad reports that epidemiological data shows a cholera

– In 2022, obesity was linked to 9,509 fatalities in Belgium, making up 8.2 percent of the country’s total death toll, according to recent data from the Belgian public health institute Sciensano. This marks the first systematic effort by public

– European health organizations are urging the European Union to implement more robust and legally binding heat protection strategies as rising temperatures pose increasing threats to public health. The Health and Environment Alliance, also known as HEAL, advocates for standardized

– Moderna has commenced a Phase 1 clinical trial testing an experimental vaccine targeting Bundibugyo ebolavirus in Canada. The trial started with the first participant receiving the mRNA-1469 vaccine on August 3 at a location in Truro, Nova Scotia. This