From Norovirus to Hantavirus and COVID-19: What’s fueling the surge in global infections?

Modern air travel allows infected individuals to move across continents within hours. Diseases that may once have remained ...
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Coronavirus - Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mobilisation against COVID-19 draws on Ebola Response Experience

While the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is confronting the public health emergency posed by COVID-19, the country is still facing the last phase of its Ebola virus epidemic.\ Meanwhile the ...
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Profiteers pounce as COVID-19 threatens Congo food supply

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Eight weeks after the Democratic Republic of Congo recorded its first case of the new coronavirus, Kinshasa's main food market still has plentiful stocks of tomatoes, aubergines ...
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Coronavirus - Democratic Republic of the Congo: As COVID-19 and conflict surge, DR Congo displaced face deadly consequences of chronic underfunding

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Massive funding gaps are ...

From COVID to hantavirus: Why disease outbreaks are becoming more frequent worldwide

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 60% of emerging infectious diseases originate in animals, while ...
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COVID-19 pushes Congo's children out of school and into domestic work

Charity says more children working as maids due to coronavirus Child domestic workers earn as little as $10 a month Government says it lacks funding to protect underage workers KINSHASA, May 26 ...