The Liberian government has confirmed the death in childbirth of a nursing assistant who was among those named Person of the Year by Time magazine in 2014 for helping to fight the Ebola outbreak....
The 2014 West African Ebola outbreak killed 11,310 people. Liberian nursing assistant Salome Karwah was not one of them. The disease that tore through her town in August of that year took her mother,...
Latest: Ebola fighter, Time person of the year, dies in childbirth The Liberian government has confirmed the death in childbirth of a nursing assistant who was among those named Person of the Year by...
Disease 'superspreaders' fueled the spread of the devastating Ebola epidemic in 2014, a new study claims. The West African Ebola epidemic was the largest in history and killed more than 11,300...
Most of the people infected with Ebola in the West Africa epidemic that began in 2014 got sick through contact with a small number of "superspreaders" with the disease, researchers said Monday. The...
An experimental Ebola vaccine was highly protective against the deadly virus in a major trial in Guinea. The vaccine is the first to prevent infection from one of the most lethal known pathogens, and...
An experimental Ebola vaccine was highly protective against the deadly virus in a major trial in Guinea. The vaccine is the first to prevent infection from one of the most lethal known pathogens, and...
UK stands by Sierra Leone on first anniversary of the end of Ebola UK support will help develop resilient health systems, improve education and increase access to clean water and electricity...
An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has potentially been exposed to the Ebola virus. The employee was working on Monday in a lab with pigs that had been infected...
As the U. S. presidential candidates lay out competing visions for the country, I have been thinking about a topic they have not yet discussed in detail: what political leadership can do to...
A new case of Ebola has been found in Liberia, a country declared free of the disease on Sept. 3, a senior United Nations official said on Friday.
The patient is a 10-year-old boy who lived in the...
The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone is expected to be declared over as a crucial milestone is reached. It is due to be confirmed that 42 days has elapsed since the last new case of the deadly virus -...
A suspected Ebola case at the University Hospital of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is causing fear and panic at the hospital and among the university community.
The...
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has held an Ebola and Cholera surveillance and contact tracing training for health workers from all the Regions.
The three-day training was to equip participants with...
(Geneva,GNA) – The World Health Organisations (WHO) says Senegal and Nigeria offers a test case for the world on how to deal with the devastating infections of the Ebola virus.
The two countries...
(Accra, GNA) - In a communique released by the United States Embassy in Ghana, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, is embarking on a five nation tour to further emphasize unbridled...
The Ivory Coast, currently free of the Ebola epidemic ravaging its neighbours, has launched a hunt for a Guinean health worker who may have fled his home country after possibly catching the...
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 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...
