(Washington Post) – Deep in the rain forest, down a dirt road with potholes that swallow four-wheel-drive vehicles, is a tiny point of light in...
(Time) – Sierra Leone has begun a three-day nationwide lockdown as it struggles to contend with the Ebola virus’s unprecedented, lethal thrust across West Africa. Citizens of Sierra...
Lauran Neergaard and Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the...
(BBC) – Cuba is sending 165 health workers to help tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, officials say. Doctors, nurses and infection control specialists...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s traveled to the sites of worrisome outbreaks of SARS, bird flu, MERS. But the Ebola outbreak that’s...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — As West Africa struggles to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola, some experts say an unusual but...
SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal researchers next week will start testing humans with an experimental vaccine to prevent the deadly Ebola virus....
CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in...
PARIS (AP) — France on Wednesday recommended that its citizens leave the African countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia because of the outbreak of Ebola...
(The Washington Post) – Dent Thompson had never heard of Samaritan’s Purse when the Christian relief group called last month and asked for his help....
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — There is evidence the numbers of dead and sickened by Ebola in West Africa may “vastly underestimate the magnitude of the...
GERALD IMRAY, AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — It started when the small Indian Ocean island of Seychelles refused entry to Sierra Leone’s...
(The Washington Post) – As the death toll from the Ebola virus in four West African nations topped 1,000, an official from the World Health...
MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health authorities have eased safety restrictions on an experimental drug to treat Ebola, a move that...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization on Friday declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public...
(USA Today) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its highest-level alert for a response to the Ebola crisis in West...
(AllAfrica.com) Abuja, Lagos — It was a solemn atmosphere in Abuja Wednesday as the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, and his Information counterpart, Labaran Maku,...
(Los Angeles Times) – Two American aid workers were gravely ill, fighting to survive infection with the deadly Ebola virus. A San Diego drug company...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Two American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for...
(Bloomberg) – A tiny San Diego-based company provided an experimental Ebola treatment for two Americans infected with the deadly virus in Liberia. The biotechnology drug, produced...
Umaru Fofana and Clair MacDougall, REUTERS (Reuters) – Hundreds of troops deployed in Sierra Leone and Liberia on Monday under an emergency plan to fight...
CONAKRY (AFP) – The head of the World Health Organisation and presidents of the west African countries suffering the world’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak were due...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he is taking the Ebola outbreak in Africa seriously. He says the United States is taking precautions for...
By Boubacar Diallo and Sarah DiLorenzo Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Ebola could continue to spread in West Africa for months in one of the...
[Medical News Today] Following the announcement of eight confirmed cases of ebola in the capital Conarky, the aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), says...
