Friday 21 January, 2022
The abuses were committed by the UN agency’s staff who were in the country to fight an Ebola outbreak from 2018 to 2020.
The virus is carried by bats and has a fatality rate of up to 88%.
The cases mark the first known resurgence of Ebola in West Africa since a 2013-2016 epidemic.
The 11th outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo ended on 18 November 2020.
The wide use of vaccinations helped curb the disease, the WHO said.
The allegations were linked to WHO efforts to tackle Ebola in the country.
A third case has been detected in the border city of Goma, home to 2 million people.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said it “welcomed” the decision.
The current Ebola crisis has recorded more than 2,000 cases.
The fatalities have prompted World Health Organization officials to prepare an emergency meeting.
The latest outbreak has so far infected 840 people and killed 537 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The man had recently returned from a trip in Burundi.
Her husband and sons may have been infected with the virus as a result.
The number of reported cases is 42, including two confirmed.
Ebola is one of the world’s most notorious diseases, being both highly infectious and extremely lethal.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 353 Lassa cases since 1 January.
If superspreading had been completely under control about two-thirds of Ebola cases could have been avoided.
Pauline Cafferkey became infected with the deadly virus while working in Sierra Leone in December 2014, but returned home unaware of her illness.
All of these images were recognised by the World Press Photo Contest.
Forty-two days have passed since the last person with Ebola tested negative for the virus.
Nubia is MSF’s last-known Ebola patient in Conakry, Guinea.
Saying that a patient is “cured” of the virus doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s been completely eradicated from the body.
Pauline Cafferkey’s condition deteriorated further today, her hospital said in a statement.
Pauline Cafferkey was airlifted from Glasgow to London after a “complication” from the virus.
The vaccine provided 100% protection in a Guinea field trial.
Many of the devices that power our everyday lives would have been unimaginable a century ago.
And there’s been a 190% increase in the disease in Haiti this year.
Sierra Leone experienced a spike in new cases last week. A replacement Irish team has already been sent out.
In public comments, WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan has repeatedly said the epidemic caught the world by surprise.
The outbreak is not yet over, doctors have warned.
Jimmy Thoronka vanished after competing in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last summer.
GOAL brings us the story of one survivor of the deadly virus.
The Ebola response appears to finally be working. But Sierra Leone has never faced an enemy like this before – the crisis has been devastating.
A suspicion of vaccines and stigma around Ebola can have devastating affects.
The Scottish native had been critically ill after contracting the virus.
Five members of the medical team are expected to arrive in Sierra Leone on January 15.
She is in hospital in London.
Her condition deteriorated, and the hospital has not said she is getting any better.
A second person is now being tested for Ebola as a “precautionary measure” in Swindon.
