Congo announces end of Ebola outbreak in east, second deadliest on record
The second-largest Ebola outbreak on record is over after nearly two years and more than 2,200 deaths, Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday, even...
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Four killed in attacks against Ebola response centres in Congo
Militia fighters in eastern Congo killed four people and injured several others in attacks on two Ebola response centres on Thursday, in what responders described...
WHO says no new Ebola cases in Goma, vaccinates over 1,300
The World Health Organisation has vaccinated over 1,300 people who potentially came into contact with the Ebola virus in the Congolese city of Goma, it...
Congo races to contain Ebola after gold miner contaminates several in Goma
Congolese authorities were racing to contain an Ebola epidemic on Thursday, after a gold miner with a large family contaminated several people in the east’s...
WHO: Ebola outbreak is international health emergency
The World Health Organisation declared the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo to be a “public health emergency of international concern”, saying the recent...
U.N. calls for hundreds of millions in more aid to fight Ebola
Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak could last much longer and cost far more in money and lives unless U.N. member states inject hundreds of millions of...
Second Ebola patient dies in Uganda, two others in intensive care
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA, June 13 (Reuters) – A Congolese woman has become the second patient in Uganda to die of Ebola since the virus...
As Ebola threatens mega-cities, vaccine stockpile needs grow
Doubts are growing about whether the world’s emergency stockpile of 300,000 Ebola vaccine doses is enough to control future epidemics as the deadly disease moves out of...
Four new Congo Ebola cases, medics prepare experimental treatment
Four new cases of Ebola virus have been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said, as authorities prepare to deploy an...
First reported deaths in Congo Ebola outbreak came in January
Cases of hemorrhagic fever were reported in an area of Congo that is facing an Ebola epidemic as far back as December and the first...
Disease ‘superspreaders’ fuelled West Africa Ebola epidemic – researchers
By Kieran Guilbert Most people infected with Ebola in the world’s worst outbreak of the deadly virus contracted it from just a tiny fraction of...
Scottish nurse who had Ebola cleared of hiding symptom
A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for patients in Sierra Leone was cleared on Wednesday of allegations that she had put the public...
WHO declares Liberia free of active Ebola virus transmission
Liberia has reached the end of active Ebola virus transmission, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, the fourth such declaration from one of...
British nurse who recovered from Ebola back in hospital again
A Scottish nurse, who recovered from Ebola but then suffered life-threatening complications from the virus persisting in her brain, has been admitted to hospital for...
Why Zika may be as tough to beat as Ebola
By Peter Apps Taraneh Shirazian, obstetrician and gynaecologist at New York University Langone medical centre has been seeing some very worried women – those with...
More than 100 people quarantined after Sierra Leone Ebola death
By Umaru Fofana More than 100 people have been quarantined in Sierra Leone after coming in contact with a woman who died of Ebola last...
Boy dies of Ebola in Liberia, first fatality in months
By James Harding Giahyue A 15-year-old boy has died of Ebola in Liberia, the first such fatality for months in a country declared free of...
Liberia monitors over 150 Ebola contacts as virus re-emerges
By James Harding Giahyue Liberia has placed 153 people under surveillance as it seeks to control a new Ebola outbreak in the capital more than...
Discharged British Ebola nurse back in hospital
A Scottish nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone last year but had seemingly made a full recovery was back in hospital in...
Vaccine success holds hope for end to deadly scourge of Ebola (Updated)
By Kate Kelland and Tom Miles The world is on the verge of being able to protect humans against Ebola, the World Health Organization said...