Tedros Ghabreyesus Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/tedros-ghabreyesus/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 13 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Tedros Ghabreyesus Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/tedros-ghabreyesus/ 32 32 WHO to use experimental vaccine to counter Ebola outbreak in DRC https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/who-to-use-experimental-vaccine-to-counter-ebola-outbreak-in-drc/ Sun, 13 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/who-to-use-experimental-vaccine-to-counter-ebola-outbreak-in-drc/ The World Health Organization says it will use an experimental Ebola vaccine in dealing with the outbreak of the killer haemorrhagic disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Another case of Ebola has been confirmed in Northwest DRC brining to 35 number of cases – 18 of which have been fatal. ends intro  World Health […]

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]]> The World Health Organization says it will use an experimental Ebola vaccine in dealing with the outbreak of the killer haemorrhagic disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Another case of Ebola has been confirmed in Northwest DRC brining to 35 number of cases – 18 of which have been fatal.

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World Health Organization boss Tedros Ghebreyesus says the vaccine comes from available stockpiles and will arrive in the DRC onWednesday.

Ghebreyesus ism on a two day visit to the DRC where Ebola has broken out near the border with the Republic of Congo.

The WHO chief has seen President Joseph Kabila and praised him for the speedy response to the outbreak and the cooperation with the UN children’s fund UNICEF and Medicines Sans Frontiers

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