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2003 Congo Special Weapons News



  • EBOLA VACCINE VOA 21 Nov 2003 -- A registered nurse has made medical history as the first human volunteer to test an experimental Ebola vaccine. Thirty-six-year-old Steve Rucker was injected with a vaccine created by researchers at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, who say the trial is a major step in developing an effective vaccine against Ebola. The need for such a vaccine is highlighted by the recent outbreak of the disease in the Mbomo region of the Republic of Congo.
  • W-H-O / EBOLA VOA 14 Nov 2003 -- The World Health Organization says it has confirmed the presence of the deadly Ebola virus in Mbomo, a remote area in the northern part of the Republic of the Congo. It has sent a team of international experts to the area to investigate the source of the disease.
  • CONGO / EBOLA VOA 08 Apr 2003 -- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says the Ebola epidemic in the northwestern Republic of Congo shows no signs of slowing. The Red Cross says this epidemic is particularly virulent and that, so far, it has killed 120 of the 135 cases that have been reported.
  • CONGO: Ebola death toll rises IRIN 25 Mar 2003 -- The number of deaths from the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Republic of Congo has risen to 113, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported on Monday.
  • CONGO: Ebola deaths reach 111 IRIN 19 Mar 2003 -- The death toll in the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Cuvette-Ouest Region of northern Congo has continued to rise. Of the 123 people known to have been infected with the haemorrhagic fever, 111 had died, Joseph M'boussa, who is heading the fight against the virus, told IRIN.
  • CONGO: Cuvette-Ouest officials accuse Brazzaville of inaction on Ebola IRIN 11 Mar 2003 -- In a declaration issued on Thursday, parliamentarians of the Ebola-affected Cuvette-Ouest Region of the Republic of Congo (ROC) accused the Brazzaville government of insufficient action to protect the region's residents from the highly contagious and often-lethal haemorrhagic virus.
  • CONGO: Multisectoral programme set to study, fight Ebola IRIN 11 Mar 2003 -- A multi-sectoral programme for the research and prevention of the highly contagious and often-lethal Ebola virus in northern Republic of Congo (ROC) was adopted on Thursday at the conclusion of three-day meeting in the capital, Brazzaville.
  • CONGO: Government moves to calm fears in Ebola zone IRIN 11 Mar 2003 -- Health Minister Alain Moka is leading a high-level delegation to the Department of Kelle, the Cuvette-Ouest Region of the Republic of Congo, to reassure residents of government's efforts to overcome the Ebola haemorrhagic fever that broke out there almost one month ago.
  • CONGO: Ebola toll reaches 115 cases, 97 deaths in Cuvette-Ouest Region IRIN 10 Mar 2003 -- By 8 March 2003, 115 probable cases of the highly contagious and often-lethal Ebola virus were reported in the Republic of Congo (ROC), with the death toll rising to 97, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) representative in the ROC, Dr Lamine Sarr.
  • CONGO: Ebola toll reaches 110 cases, 89 deaths in Cuvette-Ouest Region IRIN 06 Mar 2003 -- As at Wednesday, 110 cases of the deadly Ebola virus had been confirmed in the Cuvette-Ouest Region of the Republic of Congo (ROC), resulting in 89 deaths so far, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported.
  • CONGO: Consumers shun bush-meat for fear of Ebola IRIN 06 Mar 2003 -- Bush-meat vendors in Ouesso, the largest town in the Republic of Congo's region of Sangha, have reported a sharp drop in sales due to consumers having been frightened by the Ebola virus ravaging a nearby area, a market administrator told IRIN.
  • CONGO: Food aid reaches area of Ebola outbreak IRIN 27 Feb 2003 -- A consignment of much-needed food aid sent by the government reached the districts of Kelle and Mbomo in Cuvette-Ouest Region of the Republic of Congo (ROC) on Wednesday, the World Health Organisation reported from the capital, Brazzaville.
  • CONGO: Ebola toll reaches 95 cases, 77 deaths in Cuvette-Ouest Region IRIN 26 Feb 2003 -- As at Wednesday, 95 cases of the deadly Ebola virus have been confirmed in the Cuvette-Ouest Region of the Republic of Congo (ROC), resulting thus far in 77 deaths, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported.
  • CONGO: Government confirms haemorrhagic fever outbreak to be Ebola IRIN 19 Feb 2003 -- The government of the Republic of Congo has officially declared the cause of the suspected acute haemorrhagic fever epidemic in Cuvette Ouest Region to be Ebola.
  • CONGO/EBOLA VOA 19 Feb 2003 -- The World Health Organization says laboratory tests confirm an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in a northwestern area of the Republic of Congo. Latest W-H-O figures show 73 cases of Ebola, that have killed 59-people.
  • CONGO: Cuvette-Ouest Region quarantined due to suspected Ebola outbreak IRIN 14 Feb 2003 -- The government of the Republic of Congo on Thursday quarantined the Cuvette-Ouest Region due to an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever, suspected to be the Ebola virus.
  • CONGO / EBOLA VOA 06 Feb 2003 -- Officials from the World Health Organization are traveling to northern Congo-Brazzaville to investigate reports of an outbreak of the Ebola virus that has killed more than a dozen people.
  • CONGO: Possible Ebola outbreak in Cuvette Ouest region IRIN 06 Feb 2003 -- An emergency team left Brazzaville on Thursday to investigate a suspected outbreak of haemorrhagic fever in the Republic of Congo's Cuvette Ouest Region, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported.



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