NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Finding an effective treatment will be incredibly important in our battle against COVID-19,” said Dr. K. Craig Kent, UVA’s executive vice president for...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The battle to knock out the Ebola virus should have its eyes on the goal. Instead, politics and a divisive struggle between two...
MARIA CHENG, Associated Press RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press KENEMA, Sierra Leone (AP) — Something didn’t smell right. As a worker at Kenema...
TOM ODULA, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — U.S. actor Danny Glover said Thursday that he is in Nigeria to star in a movie based on...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The head of Sierra Leone’s National Ebola Response Center says that three new cases of Ebola have emerged in an area...
JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH, Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The World Health Organization declared Liberia Ebola-free for a second time on Thursday after the country hardest hit...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press MASSESSEHBEH, Sierra Leone (AP) — It had been five months since the last Ebola case in Musa Kamara’s village when he returned...
CARLEY PETESCH, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — New Ebola cases were in the single digits another week, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, showing that...
(VOA News) – A panel of experts released its assessment Tuesday on the World Health Organization’s response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak. It said the...
JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH, Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian authorities on Tuesday quarantined two households after the corpse of a 17-year-old boy was found with Ebola,...
(BBC) – The continuing Ebola epidemic in Guinea has set back the country’s fight against malaria, say experts. They estimate 74,000 cases of malaria went...
(Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven industrial nations pledged on Monday to wipe out Ebola but offered little in terms of concrete action,...
BOUBACAR DIALLO, Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Relatives of Ebola victims are transporting their bodies on public transportation in Guinea, seating the corpses upright between...
MONROVIA, Liberia (USA Today) — This once-stricken nation plans to declare it is officially free of Ebola on Saturday, barring the unexpected discovery of a...
(Irish Times) – An experimental Ebola drug cured three monkeys intentionally infected with the virus, according to a study published in Nature magazine. The development...
BOUBACAR DIALLO, Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea closed its border with Sierra Leone on Monday as part of new efforts to stamp out Ebola,...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Four more American aid workers arrived back in the United States on Tuesday from West Africa to...
(Telegraph) – Liberia released its last current Ebola patient from hospital on Thursday, marking the West African nation’s unexpected transition from critical-list patient to international poster boy...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Close to 1,000 new cases of Ebola were recorded in the last three weeks despite progress in...
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At least 50 Ebola hotspots remain in the three hardest-hit West African countries but new cases are...
(HealthDay News) — If the current high rates of monitoring and hospitalization continue, the Ebola epidemic in Liberia could be halted by the middle of...
BEIJING (AP) — China is ramping up its assistance in the fight against Ebola by dispatching an additional 232 army medical workers to West Africa,...
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer The World Health Organization says the two leading Ebola vaccines appear safe and will soon be tested in healthy volunteers in West...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is increasing assistance to Western African countries hard-hit by the Ebola virus, setting aside 3 million euros ($3.55 million)...
NEW YORK (AP) – Health officials are celebrating some important victories in 2014, and Time magazine even named Ebola fighters the persons of the year. Nevertheless,...
