Council on Foreign Relations: The Escalating Ebola Crisis in the DRC Claire Felter, copy editor/writer at CFR, discusses the escalating Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has recently spread to Uganda, and provides an overview of the current situation, response, challenges, and needs (6/13).

Agence France-Presse: Half of Ebola outbreaks go ‘undetected’: study “…Researchers at the University of Cambridge used several independent datasets from the last major outbreak, in West Africa in 2013-2016, to simulate thousands of outbreaks. They calculated how often on average a spillover event could be expected to fizzle out before…

CDC: CDC Activates Emergency Operations Center for Ebola Outbreak in Eastern DRC “[On Wednesday,] the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [announced the] activation of its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on Thursday, June 13, 2019, to support the inter-agency response to the current Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic…

Agence France-Presse: WHO emergency panel meets on Ebola after Uganda deaths “The World Health Organization emergency committee will decide Friday whether to declare a raging Ebola epidemic an international threat, after an outbreak that began in Democratic Republic of Congo crossed into Uganda. The WHO panel, which was formed in…

USAID: Statement by USAID Spokesperson Tom Babington on Monitoring Ebola in Uganda “Three cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Uganda, resulting in one death. This marks the first cases of the deadly disease outside of neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the ongoing outbreak began in August…

Associated Press: 2nd Ebola death in Uganda after outbreak crosses border “A second person infected with the Ebola virus has died in Uganda, the health ministry said Thursday, after a family exposed to the disease quietly crossed the border from Congo. … The family’s case shows the challenges in tracking…

CIDRAP News: DRC declares measles outbreak after 1,500 deaths “Alongside a tough battle against Ebola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) health ministry [Monday] declared a measles outbreak, spanning 23 of the country’s 26 provinces and piling up 87,000 suspected cases since the first of the year. In a…

Associated Press: 5-year-old boy dies of Ebola as Uganda cases rise to 3 “A 5-year-old boy vomiting blood became the first cross-border victim of Ebola in the current outbreak on Wednesday, while two more people in Uganda tested positive for the highly contagious disease that has killed nearly 1,400 in…

Fox News: Drs. Thomas Frieden, Margaret Hamburg: There’s a limited window to make America safer from epidemics Tom Frieden and Margaret Hamburg, members of the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security “…In one week, the World Bank will decide how to allocate more than $50 billion in development funding…

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