Global failure to prepare for pandemics ‘gambling with children’s future’
Lessons from Ebola and Covid were not learned, say Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as they launch report calling for urgent action
December 2023
We need resources to fight health impacts of climate crisis, Africans tell Cop28
Continent must have more resilient health systems and local vaccine manufacturing to prevent next pandemic, says public health body
September 2023
Fake social media posts on Burning Man festival stir conspiracy theory frenzy
Rumors and fake posts about an Ebola outbreak posted on TikTok and Twitter led to a rapid spread of misinformation
May 2023
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Pneumonia vaccine delays kill thousands needlessly in Africa
Access to PCV jabs in South Sudan, Somalia, Guinea and Chad ‘could save 40,000 children a year’
April 2023
‘We’re in a golden age for microbes’: the man rewriting history from the perspective of germs
Forget ‘great men’ – infection and disease are the really important forces in the development of humankind, believes public health specialist Jonathan Kennedy
March 2023
Tanzania announces outbreak of deadly Marburg virus disease
Five deaths and three further cases of the Ebola-like virus have been reported in the country’s north-west
February 2023
‘There may still be surprises’: Jeremy Farrar warns of pandemic perils ahead
As the former Sage adviser leaves Wellcome to join WHO, he talks about exhausted health workers, the UK’s sluggish response to Covid and the danger of conspiracy theories
January 2023
‘A great day for the country’: Uganda declares an end to Ebola outbreak
Control measures including lockdowns have halted the spread of the virus after less than four months
November 2022
Misinformation hampers Uganda’s battle against new outbreak of Ebola
Despite 53 deaths, people are still in denial of the danger as doctors race to develop an effective vaccine against Sudan strain of disease
October 2022
Uganda is battling Ebola again – and the world doesn’t have a vaccine
Devi Sridhar
Health workers among dead in Ugandan Ebola outbreak
July 2022
Ghana reports first cases of deadly Ebola-like Marburg virus
No treatment or vaccine exists for Marburg, which can spread from infected animals such as bats
March 2022
‘Africa must be self-sufficient’: John Nkengasong on learning the deadly lessons of pandemics
The outgoing director of Africa Centres for Disease Control has seen Ebola, Aids and now Covid – and warns complacency is dangerous
February 2022
UK Lassa fever death highlights global threat of infectious diseases, experts say
Cases of illness normally seen in west Africa are ‘stark reminder’ of need to invest in outbreak preparedness
December 2021
Death of young woman after FGM revives calls for ban in Sierra Leone
Maseray Sei, 21, was found dead after undergoing the procedure in a centuries-old ritual carried out by a secret society for women
November 2021
Human trials of vaccine for multiple species of Ebola to begin soon
Opinion
The young taxi bikers killed in Freetown’s fuel blast died trying to scrape a living
Jonah Lipton and James B Palmer
August 2021
Ivory Coast confirms first Ebola case since 1994
Woman, 18, is in intensive care in Abidjan as emergency plan to identify her contacts begins
Deadly Marburg virus discovered for first time in west Africa
Ebola-like disease kills man in Guinea as WHO says it is working with local health authorities on swift response to stop spread
‘They thought Covid only kills white people’: myths and fear hinder jabs in DRC
Mutant strain may emerge amid vaccine hesitancy, experts say, as even medics reject jabs in DR Congo
