Category: Outbreak Watch
DRC’s Ebola Outbreak Just Passed 6,700 Cases. Nearly Half of Everyone Infected Has Died.
WHO's newest Disease Outbreak News update on DRC's Ebola outbreak reports 6,778 cumulative cases and 3,269 deaths, a 48.3% case fatality rate,…
DRC’s Ebola Death Toll Just Passed 3,000. WHO Just Ruled Out the Vaccine Everyone Was Counting On.
DRC's Ebola outbreak has now killed over 3,009 people from 6,206 cases. WHO's vaccine advisory group ruled that Ervebo, the standard Ebola…
Lassa Fever Just Got Deadlier in Nigeria. The Fatality Rate Jumped From 18.7% to 24% in a Year.
NCDC's latest situation report shows Lassa fever has killed 253 people across Nigeria since January, with the case fatality rate rising sharply…
Half of Guinea-Bissau’s Mpox Cases Are in Children. Schools Reopen in Two Weeks.
In Guinea-Bissau’s first-ever mpox outbreak, half of the 46 suspected cases are children. UNICEF warns that schools reopening in September could accelerate…
A Man Died From Malaria at Frankfurt Airport. He’d Never Left Germany.
German health authorities confirmed six malaria cases and one death among Frankfurt Airport workers, suspected to be linked to an infected mosquito…
100 Days Into DRC’s Ebola Outbreak: The Response Scaled Up Fast. The Virus Is Still Outrunning It
WHO’s 100-day update on DRC’s Ebola outbreak shows more than 5,200 cases and a response that’s scaled up dramatically, more labs, more…
The Worst Week Yet: Why Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Keeps Outrunning the Response
WHO’s latest count puts DRC’s Ebola outbreak at over 4,600 cases and a 46.8% fatality rate, with the worst week of transmission…
A Nigerian Epidemiologist Will Soon Lead the World’s Pandemic Vaccine Coalition
Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, a UCL-based Nigerian epidemiologist, has been appointed the next CEO of CEPI, the global coalition that funds and accelerates…
Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Just Passed 2,000 Deaths. The Reason It’s So Deadly Isn’t Just Speed.
DRC’s Ebola outbreak has now killed more than 2,000 people, with a fatality rate higher than the deadliest outbreak in history. Part…
Nigeria Now Has the Region’s Largest Cholera Outbreak. Here’s Why It Keeps Crossing Borders.
UNICEF says cholera is spreading rapidly across West and Central Africa, moving along two major river corridors and putting millions of children…