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  • According to US President Donald Trump, talks with Iran may occur this next weekend.
  • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards claim that in response to US strikes on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, they opened fire on US military installations.
  • In order "to safeguard national security," Bahrain's Ministry of Interior declared that it has arrested fifteen people who were allegedly linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
  • Kuwait said on Wednesday that one person was killed and numerous others were injured in an Iranian missile and drone strike on its international airport.
  • During a press conference in Geneva on Wednesday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, stated that the Ebola virus in central Africa has had a "big head-start" and warned that health officials were still lagging behind.

Tag: Ebola outbreak

January 23, 2019

Ebola Survivors of Beni

As of 20 January, 422 people have died in this outbreak, while 245 have survived. Two hundred and seventeen of these survivors are participating in the programme.

January 13, 2019

Breakthrough Made in Treating Ebola Virus

Now scientists have found one. Their research produced a drug cocktail called MBP134 that helped monkeys infected with three deadly strains of Ebola recover from the disease

January 11, 2019

Ebola Infected New Born Baby in...

Historically, there have been very low survival rates for pregnant women infected with Ebola, and for their babies

December 18, 2018

Meet Benedicte the Miracle Baby: Congo’s...

The UN’s children’s emergency fund says more than 30 percent of cases in this outbreak are children

December 12, 2018

Ebola Effected Children in DRC

UNICEF and its partners have so far identified more than 400 children who have been orphaned or left unaccompanied because of the virus

November 13, 2018

Uganda’s Ebola Survivors Recall Disease’s Horrors...

As the Democratic Republic of Congo battles the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, just across the border Ugandan survivors of a 2007 outbreak are reminded of the near-death experience they went through

November 11, 2018

Uganda Readies to Stave Off Ebola...

Ebola has infected 319 people in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo since August, killing 198. 

November 9, 2018

Uganda Prepares to Fight Off Ebola...

  In Uganda, officials have stepped up measures to prevent an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. Ebola has infected 250 people in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo since August, killing 180. The border between the countries remains open, and health experts fear the virus will enter Uganda through the cross-border traffic. Halima Athumani …

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