The UN health are says its requires the information to make a proper risk assessment.

Heavily reliant on tourism, Tanzania is reluctant to be associated with the EBOLA outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo that has sickened  more than 3000 people and killed more than 2000.

The World Health Organization has sought confirmation from Tanzanian authorities about three cases in that country – one of them in the capital Dar Es Salaam.

The EBOLA outbreak in the Congo has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

At least four people have died from EBOLA  in Uganda, having carried the deadly hemorrhagic disease  across the border.  

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Two people died in the central African countrry in June after returning from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo where a year-long outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic disease has killed more than 1800 people.

Uganda’s trying out a double dose anti-Ebola vaccination on 800 people.

The vaccination was deemed unsuitable in neighboring Congo because there was no way of ensuring patients would pitch up two months later for the second dose.

The EBOLA outbreak in the DRC has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, having spread into the eastern capital Goma which is hard by the frontier with both Uganda and Rwanda.

DRC EBOLA coordinator Jean-Jacques Muyembe reckons it will take two years to end this latest outbreak. 

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The Rwandan action follows the death of second EBOLA patient in the DRC’s eastern capital and confirmation of the fourth infection by the deadly hemorrhagic disease.

Rwanda reopened its border with the DRC at Goma and has yet to explain its action.

President Paul Kagame came under intense pressure from the United Nations which has urged the Congo’s neighbors not to close their borders following the World Health Organization’s declaration of the EBOLA outbreak, that’s killed more than 1800 people, a public health emergency of international concern.

Medical charities helping Congolese health authorities say they fear the outbreak is running out of control. 

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A third case of the deadly hemorrhagic disease has been confirmed in the Congo’s eastern capital Goma.

Health authorities, now answering directly to President Felix Tshisikedi, confirm the daughter of an EBOLA victim to dies in Goma this week has been infected with the disease that’s killed more than 1 800 of the  2 500 people it sickened.

Medics are disinfecting the home of the victims and identifying those people they have been in contact with.

Health workers face persistent hostility from the population who believe they are being exploited.

The spread of EBOLA into Goma caused the World Health Organization to declare the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

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It’s the second largest outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic disease in history and its killed more than 1600 people.

President Felix Tshisikedi announced that a multi-disciplinary committee answering to his officer will deal with the year-long EBOLA outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

His decision follows the declaration by the World Health Organization of the outbreak being a public health emergency of international concern.

It is only fourth time the United Nations health arm has made such a declaration.

In his resignation letter, health minister Oly Illunga says in a war – which is what the fight against EBOLA has become – it creates confusion having several centres of decision making.

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