The Democratic Republic of Congo has approved using an experimental Ebola vaccine to combat an outbreak of the virus in the northeast, the government said Monday. “The DRC accepts the use of vaccines against the Ebola virus,” a source in the health ministry told AFP, adding that the government concluded it had no objections to … Read more
An unlicenced Ebola vaccine could soon be tested in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo hit by an outbreak of the virus, the World Health Organization said Thursday. There is no licenced vaccine for the Ebola virus, but a promising candidate vaccine could be deployed within a matter of days if the … Read more
More than 4,000 chickens have died since the outbreak of the Newcastle disease in Namibia early July this year. The disease that was first detected at Etunda in the north of the country about 760 kilometers from capital Windhoek spread to other three areas in the same region. There have not been any reports of … Read more