(Africa,Reuters) - Leading drugmakers plan to work together to speed up the development of an Ebola vaccine and hope to produce millions of doses for use next year.
U.S. firm Johnson & Johnson said...
(Accra,GNA) – The Board of Directors of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has expressed concern about the Ebola epidemic ravaging parts of West Africa and called for intensified efforts...
The international news organization VICE News visited Liberia to provide a front line perspective of the uphill battle Liberia is fighting against the Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
The fight against Ebola...
(Reuters, Africa) - Travelers to the United States from Ebola-stricken Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea must fly into one of five airports that have enhanced screening in place for the virus, the U.S....
(The Presidency, Accra)President John Mahama has expressed optimism that there will be a positive turnaround in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease. The totality of ongoing international...
The World Health Organization declared Nigeria Ebola free on Monday after a 42 day period with no new cases, in a success story with lessons for countries still struggling to contain the deadly...
President John Mahama has urged Ghanaian soldiers to complement efforts of their counterparts in the West African sub-region in helping fight the deadly Ebola virus.
He said aside their internal...
A Ghanaian student in Czech Republic arrested, forced into a suffocating black polythene bag, wheeled away in a trolley and dumped into a bus has tested negative for ebola, the Ghana Mission in the...
There's more hope that an Ebola-fighting drug is on its way.
Biochemists at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in the United States, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, have...
People arriving in the UK from areas hit by Ebola face "enhanced screening" for the virus at Heathrow, Gatwick and Eurostar terminals.
Downing Street said passengers would be asked questions and...
Over the past five decades, Africa has had – and continues to deal with a number of issues affecting its development including corruption, preventable diseases, insecurity, malnutrition, poor...
Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato has confirmed that a nurse who treated two victims of Ebola in Madrid has tested positive for the disease.
The nurse is said to be the first person in the current...
The World Bank has agreed a dramatic increase in financing to address the Ebola crisis upping the initial $230 million to $400 million dollars.
The money will help the worst-affected countries such...
Mr. Mahama, Chairman of ECOWAS, left Accra on Monday for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, to discuss with the leadership of those countries on available interventions to support the regional body to...
A requiem mass was held at the Christ the King Church on Friday, September 12, 2014 for Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, the lead consultant physician and endocrinologist at the First Consultants Medical...
Health workers at the Achimota Hospital in Accra have reportedly abandoned the facility over a suspected Ebola case Sunday.
A patient was rushed to the hospital Sunday morning showing symptoms of the...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $50m on Wednesday to support emergency efforts to contain West Africa's Ebola epidemic, which has already killed almost 2 300 people in the worst outbreak...
More than 2,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Friday, out of about 4,000 patients thought to have been infected in the three countries...
Sierra Leone's proposed countrywide "lockdown" will not help control an Ebola outbreak and could lead to the disease spreading further as cases are concealed, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres...
The Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, Busumuru Kofi Annan has warned that if measures are not put in place now to fight the deadly virus, Ebola, it will escalate beyond control.
“Without...
