As the latest of the six British-built Ebola treatment centres in west Africa admitted its first three patients this weekend, some of the volunteer NHS staff working there over Christmas said they felt insulted by a draconian ramping up of the protocols they have been told they will have to...
An Australian-run medical centre for Ebola patients has opened in Sierra Leone overnight, the foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, has announced.
Britain recently completed the building, which is near Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown.
“Patients will be referred to the centre and in line with...
There has been an apparent first in the fight against Ebola this week.
According to flight records, the private jet company contracted by the State Department to transport Ebola patients flew two air ambulances to West Africa on the same day.
Until Wednesday, Phoenix Air had flown only one...
He weighed 220 lb. pre-Ebola, but lost 30
A doctor who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Sierra Leone and was evacuated to the U.S. for care in September revealed his identity in a report published Sunday.
Ian Crozier, who had been working with the World Health Organization in Kenema...
"It's all hands on deck, 24/7, for Ebola," one prominent federal health official told me during the hysteria, but "we're ignoring antibiotic resistance."
Yet, each year, more than 5 million people in the U.S. and Europe become infected with serious, resistant bacterial infections across the...
KARACHI: A 47-year-old man from Karachi was admitted into the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Monday morning on suspicion of contracting the deadly Ebola virus.
Muhammad Haroon arrived in Karachi by Qatar Airways from Monrovia, the capital of Liberia – one of the West African...
A 15-minute blood and saliva test for Ebola is to be trialled in Guinea, it has been announced.
The solar-powered, portable laboratory should deliver results six times faster than tests currently used in West Africa.
The researchers involved say faster diagnosis would increase the chances of...
Police and health authorities are searching for a man who arrived from Sierra Leone and was suspected of carrying the Ebola virus disease, after he failed to report for daily physical checkups from Nov...
The Sierra Leone national aged 31, identified as Sesay Samuel, arrived at Suvarnabhumi...
CRYSTAL CITY, Mo. – A possible Ebola case is being investigated at Mercy Jefferson Hospital in Crystal City.
John Winkelman, a spokesperson for the hospital, says the male patient recently returned from West Africa and was admitted to the hospital Wednesday evening.
Winkelman called the patient...
For more than two decades, Lucy Barh has been helping women deliver babies. Even during Liberia's violent civil war, when other midwives left, Barh stuck around.
But none of this prepared her for a patient she saw a few months ago.
"I was on duty that day when the patient came in," says Barh, at...