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New Ebola Outbreak in DR Congo Claims 65 Lives, Spreads to Uganda

A new Ebola outbreak centred in the conflict-hit Ituri province of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has killed at least 65 people, according to health officials, in what Africa CDC director Dr Jean Kaseya described as a rapidly evolving situation requiring urgent regional coordination. The World Health Organization and multiple national health ministries are […]

Africa’s Silent Pandemic: Antimicrobial Resistance Is Killing More People Than HIV and Malaria Combined

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While the world’s attention remains fixed on emerging infectious disease threats, a quieter — and in many ways deadlier — crisis has taken root across the African continent. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the process by which bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve to defeat the drugs designed to kill them, is now responsible for more deaths

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