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Kenya’s health authorities confirmed on Wednesday that the country no longer has a single Ebola patient under treatment or a contact in quarantine, after the final person receiving care for Bundibugyo virus disease was discharged from a Nairobi facility. Health…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has recorded 10,060 Ebola cases and 4,887 deaths linked to an outbreak first detected in mid-May. The cause is the Bundibugyo virus. No licensed vaccine and no targeted medicine have been approved for it. Africa…
As midterm elections in the United States draw near, psychologists continue to probe a deceptively basic issue: whether a person’s tendency to recoil predicts a socially conservative outlook, or whether political values determine the things that provoke revulsion. A review…
Kenya and Nigeria are tracing their first Ebola patients to one Ugandan airport on one day. Africa CDC says both were at Entebbe airport in Uganda on October 3. Uganda reports no active infections, and Switzerland challenges Kampala’s version of…
