More than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo Ebola vaccine have arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), providing an important boost to efforts to contain an outbreak that has become the country’s deadliest Ebola epidemic on record. A shipment containing 16,250 doses was delivered by air to Kinshasa late Friday as health authorities and...
The Democratic Republic of Congo is once again confronting a major public health emergency after authorities confirmed the country’s 17th Ebola outbreak since the deadly virus was first identified there in 1976. Health officials have reported 246 suspected cases and at least 65 deaths so far, raising alarm across Central Africa as concerns grow over...