Tag: outbreak

Uganda Ebola Death Toll Rises to 4: Health Ministry

KAMPALA—Three more Ebola patients have died in Uganda, the health ministry said on Friday, bringing the total death toll to four, days after authorities confirmed an outbreak of a strain of the deadly disease. Uganda’s health ministry said it had confirmed 11 cases of Ebola in total, including the four deaths. The current outbreak, attributed…


Uganda Declares Ebola Outbreak After Sudan Strain Found

KAMPALA—An outbreak of Ebola has been declared in Uganda after health authorities confirmed a case of the relatively rare Sudan strain, the health ministry and World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. A 24-year-old man in Uganda’s central Mubende district showed symptoms and later died. “We want to inform the country that we have an…


Doctor Warns of Suspicious Pattern Behind Monkeypox Outbreak

There has been much speculation that the novel coronavirus was a bioweapon developed in a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lab. Now, an American doctor has a theory that the new monkeypox outbreak may also have similar nefarious origins. Dr. Syed Haider told The Epoch Times that the development of the monkeypox outbreak seems identical to the way…


Ghana Confirms Its First Outbreak of Highly Infectious Marburg Virus

DAKAR—Ghana has officially confirmed two cases of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, its health service said on Sunday, after two people who later died tested positive for the virus earlier this month. Tests conducted in Ghana came back positive on July 10, but the results had to be verified by…


CDC: New Listeria Outbreak Tied to 23 Illnesses, 1 Death

NEW YORK—One death and nearly two dozen hospitalizations are tied to a new listeria outbreak of unknown origin, health officials said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not identified a food that might be spreading the deadly bacteria, but officials said the public should be alert to symptoms and the possibility of…


Macau Shuts Most Businesses Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, Casinos Stay Open

HONG KONG—The world’s biggest gambling hub Macau began its second day of mass COVID-19 testing on Monday after dozens of locally transmitted cases were discovered over the weekend, with most businesses shut but casinos remaining open. The testing of Macau’s roughly 600,000 residents is expected to end on Tuesday as the Chinese-ruled former Portuguese colony…


North Korea Faces Infectious Disease Outbreak Amid COVID-19 Battle

SEOUL—North Korea reported an outbreak of an unidentified intestinal epidemic in a farming region on Thursday, putting further strain on the isolated country as it battles chronic food shortages and a wave of COVID-19 infections. Leader Kim Jong Un sent medicines to the western port city of Haeju on Wednesday to help patients suffering from…


South Korea Offers Medical Aid to North Korea Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

North Korea is reportedly experiencing its largest COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic began. On Sunday, the country’s state media reported 15 new deaths and 296,180 more people with “fever” symptoms nationwide, raising its death toll to 42 since it entered a state of emergency on Thursday, South Korea’s Yonhap News reported. On May 12, North…


Food Industry Adjusting to Large Outbreak of Avian Flu in Canada, Around the World

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says the food industry is making adjustments to maintain supplies of poultry and eggs in the face of a large outbreak of avian flu in Canada and around the world. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says this has been an unprecedented year globally for avian flu, or bird flu as it’s…


New Dutch H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak Will See 190,000 Chickens Culled

AMSTERDAM—Around 190,000 chickens on two neighbouring farms in the east of the Netherlands will be culled after the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus was detected on one of the farms, Dutch health authorities said on Tuesday night. It is the second bird flu outbreak reported in the Netherlands this week, after a similar discovery…