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New Delhi: A major summit of the African Union and India scheduled to be held in Delhi from May 28 has been postponed due to the “evolving health situation in parts of Africa”, the government said in a statement today. Several parts of Africa have reported cases of the deadly Ebola virus, the latest from…
Eighty people have died in a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri province, the country’s health ministry said late on Friday. Health Minister Samuel Roger Kamba Mulamba said in a statement that samples tested on Thursday had confirmed eight cases of the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus in the…
Geneva: The Red Cross voiced alarm Tuesday over the risk that fighting in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma could cause samples of Ebola and other pathogens held in a laboratory to escape. The International Committee of the Red Cross is “very concerned about the situation in the laboratory of the national biomedical research…