ebola
Rampant Ebola fear takes toll on Africa tourism
Ebola is thousands of miles away from Kenya’s pristine Indian Ocean beaches, but the deadly disease appears to be discouraging tourism there and...
Ebola hospital workers walk out over pay
Local workers have gone on strike in an overcrowded Ebola ward at a major district hospital in Sierra Leone’s disease-stricken east over claims the...
UN warns of thousands more Ebola cases in coming weeks
The Ebola virus is spreading fast in Liberia, where many thousands of new cases are expected over the coming three weeks, the World Health Organization...
Sierra Leone imposes Ebola curfew; WHO eyes vaccine as death toll surges
Sierra Leone has announced that it will impose a four-day, countrywide “lockdown” in an escalation of efforts to halt the spread of Ebola across...
World experts race to deploy experimental Ebola drugs
Aorld health experts will meet in Geneva on Friday for the second day of urgent talks on fast-tracking experimental Ebola drugs as doctors in the worst-hit...
U.N. says $600 million needed to tackle Ebola as deaths top 1,900
The United Nations said $600 million in supplies would be needed to fight West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, as the death toll from the worst ever epidemic...
'Losing battle': MSF says the world is failing to control the Ebola outbreak
International medical agency Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) said the world was “losing the battle” to contain Ebola as the United Nations warned...
Liberian Ebola victim chased through streets after escaping treatment centre
Video has emerged of Liberian Ebola clinic workers dressed in contamination suits chasing an escaped patient through the streets after he left a treatment...
Health workers death toll mounts as Ebola spreads in West Africa
Nigeria has confirmed a fresh case of Ebola in a doctor whose husband died from the virus, adding to a growing list of health care workers in West Africa...
Experimental Ebola drug heals all infected monkeys in a study
An experimental Ebola drug ZMapp has cured all 18 of the lab monkeys infected with the deadly virus, scientists reported on Friday.
Ebola strikes in Senegal as student is first to be tested positive for deadly virus
Senegal confirmed its first case of Ebola today, as the country’s health minister announced that a young Guinean had tested positive for the deadly...
West Africa Ebola outbreak traced back to a funeral; fears of further spread
An extensive look at the genome of the Ebola virus reveals its behavior, when it arrived in West Africa and how it spread in the region to cause the largest-ever...
Ebola spreads from Nigeria’s Lagos to oil hub of Port Harcourt
A doctor in Nigeria’s southeastern oil hub city of Port Harcourt has died of Ebola, Nigeria’s Health Ministry says.
Ebola causing huge damage to West Africa economies: development bank
The worst ever Ebola outbreak is causing enormous damage to West African economies as foreign businessmen quit the region, the African Development Bank...
Hope from the east: Japan could offer unapproved Ebola drug
Japan could offer an unapproved drug under certain circumstances to help treat the deadly Ebola virus even before the World Health Organization has decided...
Congo the latest African nation to fall victim to deadly spread of Ebola
The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared an Ebola outbreak in its northern Equateur province on Sunday after two out of eight cases tested came back...
Briton with Ebola flown from Sierra Leone to London
A Briton who contracted the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone is being evacuated to the UK, the African country’s Health Ministry has said.
Sierra Leone makes harboring Ebola victims a crime
Sierra Leone has passed a new law imposing possible jail time for anyone caught hiding an Ebola patient - a common practice that the World Health Organization...
American missionaries who contracted Ebola released from U.S. hospital
Two American missionaries who were struck with Ebola while working in Liberia and treated with an experimental drug are doing better and have left the...
Violence erupts in Liberia over Ebola quarantine protests
Violence erupted in an Ebola quarantine zone in Liberia’s capital Wednesday as authorities struggled to contain the epidemic, with new suspected...
Ebola-hit countries must screen all departing travellers, WHO orders
Authorities in countries affected by Ebola should check people departing at international airports, seaports and major border crossings, and stop anyone...
Armed men attack Liberian Ebola clinic as Guinea caters to health refugees
Armed men attacked an Ebola isolation ward in the Liberian capital of Monrovia on Saturday night, prompting 29 patients to flee the facility, witnesses...
Liberian president apologises to health workers for Ebola toll
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf apologised on Saturday for the high death toll among the country’s healthcare workers who have fought...
Ebola puts focus on drugs made in tobacco plants
It’s an eye-catching angle in the story of an experimental treatment for Ebola: The drug comes from tobacco plants that were turned into living pharmaceutical...
Ebola outbreak has been ‘vastly underestimated’ as death toll tops 1,000
Staff with the World Health Organization battling an Ebola outbreak in West Africa see evidence the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimates...
Experimental Ebola drug arrives in Liberia to treat doctors
A consignment of experimental Ebola drugs has arrived by plane in Liberia to treat two doctors suffering from the virus, which has killed more than 1,000...
Use of experimental drugs approved for West Africa as Ebola death toll tops 1,000
The World Health Organization (WHO) authorised the use of experimental drugs in the fight against Ebola on Tuesday as the death toll topped 1,000 and a...
On Ebola’s front line, doctor finds grief and inspiration
After a month on the front line battling Ebola in a hospital in Sierra Leone, the memories that both haunt and inspire British doctor, Tim O’Dempsey,...
Latest Ebola outbreak may have begun with 2-year-old boy in December
Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests patient zero for the latest outbreak of Ebola in West Africa may have been a 2-year-old...
Battle to contain Ebola grows as more countries start restricting travel
The battle to contain the deadly Ebola outbreak is continuing, with more countries imposing travel restrictions.
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