Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was moving faster than any previous one and had a high risk of spreading to other countries in the region.
READ MOREFear of Ebola is keeping pregnant women away from healthcare facilities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, raising the risk of stillbirths, premature births and maternal deaths as the country's deadliest Ebola outbreak continues to disrupt routine medical care.
Responders are warning the deadly haemorrhagic virus is spreading at an unprecedented rate, outpacing efforts to slow it in the remote eastern part of the country.
Morocco’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection said on Monday it has referred a report to the public prosecutor following the deaths of eight women at Hassan II Hospital in Agadir in mid-Septemb
Senegal has reported 11 deaths from Rift Valley fever out of 78 confirmed cases since the disease was first detected on 21 September in the northern Saint-Louis region,the Health and Public Hygiene M
When the couple didn't pick up their daughter the next day, family became worried.
'Now I can just hold a frying pan with my bionic arm, which feels natural.'
Mauritanian health authorities have confirmed the country’s first death from Rift Valley Fever (RVF) since the 2022 outbreak.
At least 73 children and 22 elderly people have died from hunger and disease in the past 40 days after fleeing Sudan’s Abu Shouk camp in North Darfur,according to activists.
The man in his 50s died at the scene in Bloxwich, Walsall, on Friday.
Police were called to reports of fighting on a residential road in Caerau shortly after midnight today.
David Jeffcock, 80, and wife Susan, 74, leapt from the East Cliff at Whitby Harbour on the North Yorkshire coast on July 30.
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