MARIA CHENG, Associated Press Medical Writer RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response is officially winding...
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...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The number of Ebola cases reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone last week dropped to its lowest total...
Stephanie Nebehay, REUTERS GENEVA (Reuters)—The Ebola epidemic in West Africa appears to be ebbing, with fewer than 150 cases reported in the past week, but efforts...
(New York Times) – Medical experts seeking to stem the Ebola epidemic are sharply divided over whether most patients in West Africa should, or can, be...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press YORK, England (AP) — Professors from three leading British universities say International Monetary Fund policies favoring international debt repayment over social spending...
CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY, Associated Press BOUBACAR DIALLO, Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — One of Sierra Leone’s most senior physicians died Thursday from Ebola, the 11th...
JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH, Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Officials in Ebola-stricken Liberia have postponed senatorial elections elections until the end of the week, while some urged...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY, Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Health workers sent to Sierra Leone to investigate an alarming spike in deaths...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Liberia is making progress against Ebola but stamping out the final cases so the epidemic doesn’t flare up...
KILEY ARMSTRONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors, nurses and others fighting Ebola through “tireless acts of courage and mercy” have been named Time’s 2014...
(CNN) – French President Francois Hollande is visiting Guinea on Friday in a direct show of support for the West African nation as it battles the deadly...
By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press (AP) – Campaigning is under way for Senate elections in Liberia, another sign that Ebola is loosening its deadly grip on...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer A coalition of companies and aid groups announced plans Tuesday to test experimental drugs and collect blood plasma from Ebola...
FOYA, Liberia (The Washington Post) — The Ebola virus, which has killed more than 2,830 Liberians and collapsed the country’s health-care system, is also attacking Liberia’s...
(Bloomberg) – The European Union increased its aid pledge to fight Ebola in West Africa to 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) as Mali became the sixth...
(AllAfrica.com) – A new study “On the Quarantine Period for Ebola Virus” published, last week, in the PLOS Currents: Outbreaks suggests that 21 days might...
by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News Act now and avert a global public health emergency. That, in essence,...
(Los Angeles Times) – President Obama talked up his administration’s response to Ebola and the procedures standing as a line of defense against the spread...
The Associated Press The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States traveled from Liberia to Dallas, where he is being treated at...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — First the ring tone echoed outside the barbed-wire-topped walls of the Ebola clinic. Then came the wails of...
CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY, Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone on Thursday took the dramatic step of sealing off districts where more than 1 million...
(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...
