Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed a case of Ebola in the western province of Equateur, over 1,000 km away from the ongoing outbreak in the country’s east, Health Minister Eteni Longondo told journalists on June 1. #BREAKING 'New Ebola epidemic' in northwest DR Congo: health ministry pic.twitter.com/4pLJ1XrUya — AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 1,…
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Cassava disease threatens West Africa
Researchers from half a dozen states in West Africa have united in a battle against what one expert dabbed a root crop ‘Ebola’- a viral disease that could wreck the region’s staple food and condemn millions to hunger. The cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), a virus that strikes cassava (manioc), which in some of the…
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