Nigeria begins preventive measures against possible Ebola outbreak

Democratic Republic of Congo's Health Minister on Thursday (May 10) announced the first confirmed death in a new outbreak of Ebola and said 11 other people were now confirmed to be infected, including three medical staff.

Senator representing Osun Central Senatorial District, Olusola Adeyeye, on Tuesday, called on the Senate to wade into the lingering crisis embarked upon by Nigerian Union Of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) and the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU).

Thirty-three people were believed killed by the most recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But rapid response by authorities and an experimental vaccine are credited with stopping a repeat of the 2013 disaster that took over 11,300 lives.

Children represent an unusually high proportion of people affected by the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the UN children's agency, UNICEF has said.

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is now the second biggest in history, with 426 confirmed and probable cases.

The WHO has not declared the current outbreak an international emergency. But neighboring countries considered at risk have upped their preventative measures after the virus spread to Uganda earlier this week.

DR Congo struggles to contain Ebola outbreak, nearly one year on.

The Ebola epidemic in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been confined to a rural area rife with militias and people on the move, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is grappling with the world's second-largest Ebola epidemic on record. The World Health Organization has more than 650 staff on the ground to try and contain the deadly virus where mistrust of Western medicine lingers.

Here are a few reasons to pick up a copy of The Guardian on Monday. Find these stories and much more when you grab a copy of The Guardian on Monday.

Six people have died of the Ebola virus in DR Congo's eastern province of North Kivu in recent months. UNICEF is cautiously optimistic that virus has been brought under control from a vaccine developed by Merck.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it's Incident Coordination Centre is now in alert mode, as well as other measures to prevent the potential outbreak of the Sudan strain Ebola Virus detected in Uganda in September this year.