British troops sent to help combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa are at increased risk of becoming psychotic or suicidal due to the Ministry of Defence's refusal to stop using mefloquine, the controversial anti-malarial drug.
Lariam (its brand name) is among the anti-malarials being given to...
Revealed: How mortgage fraudster hired to fight Ebola in New York 'scammed' family of dead haz-mat expert to get his company and ride to rescue on the taxpayer's dime
Salvatore Pane, 32, rode to the rescue when Ebola struck last month
Was pictured striding past infected sites, gave interviews...
A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone is in critical condition, and possibly sicker than any patient to arrive in the US from the disease-ravaged region of west Africa, a spokesman from the Nebraska hospital where he will be treated said on Saturday.
Dr Martin Salia, a...
So, the number of people who have known to have died of Ebola in the current outbreak in west Africa has passed 5,000. But what does that mean for the affected communities?
I briefly visited Sierra Leone, one of the three most affected countries along with Liberia and Guinea, this week.
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Researchers say that a new device that yanks Ebola virus from the blood may have saved an infected doctor’s life
Battling a virus is all about timing, and Ebola is no exception. Our immune systems are capable of destroying Ebola, but once in the body, the virus multiplies furiously, spreading...
(Reuters) - Mali is trying to trace as many as 343 people linked to confirmed and probable Ebola victims in an effort to control its second Ebola outbreak, health officials said on Friday.
An initial batch of contacts linked to a 2-year-old from Guinea who died of Ebola last month were close to...
Team spent days in remote Liberian hospital to prove that remedies work
They planned to treat victims with 'rattlesnake venom' and 'Spanish Fly'
Boasted of the 'unique opportunity' presented by deadly Ebola outbreak
Claimed they would treat all European victims after proving success
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Health officials say a second, more serious outbreak of Ebola in Mali started about two weeks ago, when a clinic made a mistake while treating a grand imam.
Doctors at the Pasteur Clinic in Bamako, Mali's capital, diagnosed the imam with kidney failure and never bothered to test him for...
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CBS News reporter Lara Logan made waves after going to Liberia to film a story on the Ebola epidemic but not interviewing a single Liberian, who were ignored for American experts.
Despite not contacting any Ebola patients, Logan and her crew "self-quarantined" themselves in a luxury hotel in...
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A patient at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast is being tested for Ebola.
The Public Health Agency (PHA) confirmed to the BBC that the person has been placed in isolation.
It said the person recently travelled in an Ebola affected area and was being assessed and tested in accordance with a...
(Reuters) - A nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa and publicly fought quarantine orders in New Jersey and Maine after returning to the United States last month has decided to move away from her home state, a newspaper in Maine reported.
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Natural News readers were told this two weeks ago, but now it's official: the federal government has ordered the mainstream media to stop reporting on suspected Ebola cases.
"At the urging of the Obama Administration, the Associated Press and other news outlets have agreed not to report on...
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