WHO chief arrives in Congo as officials fear Ebola outbreak spread – CBS News Watch CBS News World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Congo as health officials continue to battle a severe Ebola outbreak and misinformation. Source link
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has temporarily released Jose Yugar-Cruz, a South American man who had been awaiting deportation to the Democratic Republic of Congo, his attorneys said Friday. Yugar-Cruz was first detained after crossing the border in July 2024. Six months later, an immigration judge ruled he was more likely than not to face torture … Read more
When Jose Yugar-Cruz arrived at the Arizona-Mexico border in the July heat nearly two years ago, he told a federal court, he immediately turned himself into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and asked for asylum. In January 2025, though he was denied asylum, he became one of about 4,000 migrants last year to be granted … Read more
Uganda on Wednesday ordered the closure of its border with Congo, where suspected cases of a rare type of Ebola are surging, and as cases have been confirmed at home after Ugandan health workers were exposed to the disease from Congolese patients. The measure, which goes against the guidance by the World Health Organization, underscores … Read more
BUNIA, Democratic Republic of the Congo — Doctors operating on the front lines of the fight against Ebola in Congo, already grappling with shortages of basic supplies, are now also having to deal with attacks on their facilities and fleeing patients as the virus spreads rapidly. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access … Read more
Ugandan health authorities reported two new Ebola cases Monday, bringing the number of infections there to seven after the number of suspected cases in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo surpassed 900. All the cases are linked to the Congo outbreak, which appears to have started several days or weeks before authorities in that … Read more
The Red Cross announced on Saturday that three volunteers had died in the Democratic Republic of Congo after apparently contracting Ebola while on duty there in March. The central African country has been gripped by an outbreak of the deadly viral disease which the World Health Organization has declared an international public health emergency. The … Read more
Bunia, Congo — People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and a senior police officer said, as fear and anger grow over a health crisis that doctors … Read more
The U.S. is now refusing entry to any passenger without an American passport who has been to the Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan in the past three weeks. CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Céline Gounder, an infectious disease specialist who treated patients during the West African Ebola epidemic, joins to discuss the latest on the … Read more
An American doctor who was infected with Ebola while working with a medical missionary organization in Africa said in a statement that he is feeling “cautiously optimistic” as he fights the deadly virus. Dr. Peter Stafford was working with the missionary group Serge in the Democratic Republic of Congo when he was infected with the … Read more