Ebola
U.S. bots flagged Ebola nine days before outbreak announced
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is focusing a spotlight on an online tool run by experts in Boston that flagged a “mystery hemorrhagic fever”...
Ebola outbreak is now an international emergency, says WHO
The World Health Organization urged nations worldwide Friday to donate money and resources to stop the spread of Ebola as it declared the outbreak in West...
WHO declares Ebola an international public health emergency
The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary...
Obama dismisses idea of sending experimental Ebola drugs to Africa
U.S. President Barack Obama says it’s “premature” to send an experimental drug for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, as Liberia...
In search for Ebola cure, pharmaceutical companies look to bottom line
As the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus runs rampant in West Africa, claiming the lives of almost 1,000 people according to the latest report from the...
Saudi Arabia tests man suspected of having Ebola after a trip to West Africa
Doctors in Saudi Arabia are testing a patient suspected of having contracted Ebola during a trip to West Africa, hit by an epidemic of the virus, the Health...
U.S. government had a role in Ebola drug given to aid workers
Two American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for safety in humans and was only identified...
Nigeria confirms second Ebola victim as doctor who treated virus-hit patient
Nigerian authorities today said that a doctor in Lagos who treated a Liberian victim of Ebola has contracted the virus, the second confirmed case in sub-Saharan...
Ebola patients dying of ignorance, say aid workers; infected doctor back in U.S.
As the death toll from the world’s deadliest outbreak of Ebola in west Africa climbs to 729, aid workers have warned that it’s ignorance, rather...
Sierra Leone athletes face Ebola fears as they return from Commonwealth Games
Several members of Sierra Leone’s Commonwealth Games team are afraid to return home because of the outbreak of Ebola, it has been reported.
Homeward bound: American volunteers with Ebola evacuated to Atlanta
Two Americans infected with Ebola in West Africa will be evacuated back to the United States today to be cared for in strict isolation.
As epidemic worsens, 2 American aid workers with Ebola to return home
Two American aid workers, who were gravely ill after being infected with the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia, are expected to be flown to the United States...
Sierra Leone declares emergency as Ebola death toll hits 729
Sierra Leone has declared a state of emergency and called in troops to quarantine Ebola victims, joining neighbouring Liberia in imposing controls as the...
Fight against deadly Ebola virus hampered as infected patients fear ‘witchcraft’
Many infected patients in Sierra Leone are refusing to seek treatment for the Ebola virus over fears the disease is the work of witchcraft, as the president...
World Ebola fears grow as volunteers pulled out of West Africa
Fears that the West African Ebola outbreak could spread to other continents are growing with European and Asian countries on alert and a leading medical...
Fears for spread of Ebola as Africa fails to control ‘biggest outbreak ever’
European doctors have been told to keep an eye out for anyone displaying the symptoms of Ebola as authorities in Africa fail to contain an outbreak.
Sierra Leone’s top Ebola doctor dies from virus
A leading doctor who risked his own life to treat dozens of Ebola patients died Tuesday from the disease in Sierra Leone.
Liberia shuts border crossings to curb spread of Ebola virus
The Liberian government on Sunday closed most of the West African nation’s border crossings and introduced stringent health measures to curb the...
Nigeria death shows Ebola can spread by air travel
Nigerian health authorities raced to stop the spread of Ebola on Saturday after a man sick with one of the world’s deadliest diseases brought it...
Ebola outbreak spreads to fourth West African country
An Ebola outbreak that has left more than 660 people dead across West Africa has spread to the continent’s most populous nation after a Liberian...
'National hero' chief Ebola doctor in Sierra Leone struck with deadly virus
The head doctor fighting an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, one of a growing list of medical workers...
African Ebola death toll now over 500 after ‘deadliest outbreak ever’
Ebola continues to spread in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, with a combined 44 new cases and 21 deaths between July 6 and 8, the World Health Organisation...
Fifty new Ebola cases, 25 deaths in West Africa: WHO
Fifty new cases of Ebola and 25 deaths have been reported in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea since July 3, as the deadly virus spreads in families, the...
Fear, cash shortages hinder fight against Ebola outbreak
West African states lack the resources to battle the world’s worst outbreak of Ebola and deep cultural suspicions about the disease remain a big...
W. Africa Ebola outbreak ‘totally out of control,’ says U.N. health organisation
The number of deaths attributed to an epidemic of Ebola virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone stood at 467 by Monday, out of 759 known cases in total,...
Ebola epidemic ‘out of control’ in West Africa, medical aid group says
The Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea, Sierra Leona and Liberia is “out of control,” says medical charity Doctors without Borders.
Ebola virus is ‘out of control’ in West Africa
A second outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa has been described as “out of control” by Bart Janssens, the director of operations for...
Ebola virus kills at least four in Liberia’s capital
At least four people have died from Ebola in Liberia’s capital, a World Health Organization (WHO) and a government official said on Tuesday, the...
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