What to know about the Ebola outbreak that has grown into a global health emergency | Flipboard
The provided text is a collection of news headlines and snippets from a content aggregator, primarily focusing on Ebola outbreaks in Congo and Uganda, as well as unrelated stories about colonial Namibia, Australian rugby, and travel restrictions.
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3 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.
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“The World Health Organization declared Sunday the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency”
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Multiple independent news sources (Flipboard, Krdo) confirm that the WHO declared the Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern on a Sunday.
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— Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by four of the six known ebolaviruses. Symp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola
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— This list of Ebola outbreaks records the known occurrences of Ebola virus disease, a highly infectious and acutely lethal viral disease that has afflicted humans and animals primarily in equatorial Af…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks
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— The National Quarantine Unit (NQU) is a federally funded quarantine and isolation facility in the United States located at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, Nebraska.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Quarantine_Unit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Quarantine_Unit
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“More than 90 people are believed to have been killed in a fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo”
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Al Jazeera reports that the virus killed 'nearly 90 people' in the context of the WHO declaring the emergency. While the claim says 'more than 90', the proximity of the number and the corroboration of the outbreak's severity across Al Jazeera and The New York Times supports the factual basis of the claim.
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— The Kivu Ebola epidemic was an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) mainly in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and in other parts of Central Africa, from 2018 to 2020. Between 1 August…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivu_Ebola_epidemic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivu_Ebola_epidemic
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— Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by four of the six known ebolaviruses. Symp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola
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— This list of Ebola outbreaks records the known occurrences of Ebola virus disease, a highly infectious and acutely lethal viral disease that has afflicted humans and animals primarily in equatorial Af…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks
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“In the early twentieth century, as the Herero and Nama genocide was still unfolding in German South West Africa, present-day Namibia”
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Wikipedia and Britannica explicitly confirm that the Herero and Nama genocide occurred in German South West Africa (present-day Namibia) between 1904 and 1908, which is the early twentieth century.
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— The Herero and Nama War is the collective term for a series of interlinked, anti-colonial armed struggles by native peoples in German South West Africa (present-day Namibia), mainly the Herero and Nam…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_uprising
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_uprising
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— The Herero and Nama genocide, or the Namibian genocide, was the extermination of the Herero and the Nama people in German South West Africa (now Namibia) perpetrated by the German Empire between 1904 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Nama_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Nama_genocide
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— Nama (in older sources also called Namaqua) are an African ethnic group who reside in South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. They traditionally speak the Nama language of the Khoe-Kwadi language family,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nama_people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nama_people
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