As part of its plans to contain the Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leone has ordered a countrywide "lockdown" for three days so that more than 20 000 volunteers wil be mobilized to carry ... Read more »
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has joined mounting calls for flight restriction on countries affected by the Ebola virus to be lifted. He said "banning flights and shipping ... Read more »
The world seems to be losing the battle against Ebola. Who is to blame? Critics say the international community is not doing enough to curb the disease, reports Deutsche Welle. Read more »
Fear of the Ebola virus, weak public infrastructures and a slow response by the international public health community and world governments is reversing real progress in Liberia, ... Read more »
The World Health Organization has withdrawn its staff from a lab in the eastern province of Kailahun - one of only two in the country - after a Senegalese epidemiologist was ... Read more »
The UN has warned that restricting flights in and out of Ebola-affected countries is preventing the transport of critically-needed health workers and supplies, as well as ... Read more »
It seems like a cruel twist of fate. The three African countries where the Ebola virus has rapidly spread and caused over 1 300 deaths since January - namely Guinea, Liberia Read more »
Another doctor leading Sierra Leone's fight against the deadly Ebola virus has died from the disease, the country's Ministry of Health has announced. Read more »
Doctors in Saudi Arabia are testing a man who is suspected of contracting the Ebola virus during a business trip to Sierra Leone, while a Liberian has died of the disease in ... Read more »
Presidents of West African nations affected by the deadly Ebola virus are meeting in Guinea where they are expected to launch a U.S.$100 million action plan announced by the World ... Read more »
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