capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). At least nine people, including two women, have been confirmed dead in a stampede during a concert held Saturday in Kinshasa, capital of the DRC, said DRC Health Minister Roger Kamba. (Str/...
Death Toll in Congo War May Approach 3 Million; Conflict Leaves Trail of Starvation, Disease and CarnageKarl Vick
eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on Oct. 3, 2024. At least 87 people were killed Thursday after a ferry sank on Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to a report by local authorities seen by Xinhua. (Xinhua/Alain Uaykani) ...
Raging conflict is hampering efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the WHO chief warned Tuesday, urging a ceasefire to stop the virus from transmitting freely. As the death toll in the outbreak declared on August 1 in DRC's violence-wracked North Kivu pro...
(HealthDay)—The death toll in the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo now stands at 1,008, the country's health minister reported.
the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan and Uganda. In all these countries, as in Iraq, the results of comprehensive epidemiological studies revealed 5 to 20 times more deaths than previously published figures based on “passive” reporting by journalists, NGOs or govern...
The new toll came as Uganda's health ministry announced that five people, including one with Ebola, had been repatriated to the Democratic Republic of Congo after coming into close contact with the two deceased victims. The lethal virus crossed into Uganda when a family with...
The overall cyclone death toll in Mozambique is now 518. With 259 deaths in Zimbabwe and 56 in Malawi, the three-nation death toll is more than 815. Authorities warn the tolls are preliminary as flood waters recede and reveal more bodies. ...
Perspective The 2003 Iraq War and Avoidable Death Toll Salman Rawaf* WHO Collaborating Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom During and after disasters, the human deaths become numbers in columns for epidemiologists to discover and statisti- cians to analyse. In peacetime, ...
More recently, however, these calculations have been revised, and the total death toll may have been more like 60% of the European population. Subsequent plagues would then wipe out any population growth following the first plague, leaving Europe with a smaller population in the centuries ...