Almost 200 Ethiopian health workers have arrived in West Africa to bolster the response to Ebola, a disease that has ravaged weak health care systems and killed more than 300 medical staff.
The African Union (AU) Link Removed that the Ethiopian government sent a total of 187 personnel to the...
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Speed. That's key to ending the Ebola epidemic, says the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Link Removed is visiting West Africa this week to figure out how to reduce the time it takes to find new Ebola cases and isolate them.
Otherwise, Ebola could become a...
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Junior doctors in Sierra Leone went on strike Monday to demand better treatment for health workers infected with Ebola, a health official said.
The association representing junior doctors asked the government to make sure life-saving equipment, like dialysis machines, is available to treat...
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While infections in Guinea and Liberia have leveled off or decreased, Sierra Leone has logged an increase of 400 to 500 new cases in each of the last several weeks, according to the World Health Organization.
Over the last several weeks, Sierra Leone has become the West African nation where the...
Ebola has sickened more than 16,000 people of whom nearly 7,000 have died, according to figures released by the Link Removed Friday.
Sierra Leone is now bearing the brunt of the 8-month-old outbreak. In the other hard-hit countries, Liberia and Guinea, WHO says infection rates are stabilizing or...
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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...
Emile Ouamouno was just two years old and living in the remote Guinean village of Meliandou when he began suffering from a fever, headache and bloody diarrhoea.
In December 2013, despite his family's best efforts, the young boy died - followed within days by his three-year-old sister Philomene...
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November 24, 2014 We know the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is really bad. But exactly how bad remains largely a mystery.
There have been 15,351 reported Ebola cases and 5,459 reported deaths, according to the most recent estimates released by the World Health Organization on Nov. 21. The vast...
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Fearful of a surge of Ebola cases, Mali placed more than 440 people under surveillance, as a US hospital said Monday it had been unable to save the life of a doctor airlifted from Sierra Leone.
Officials in Mali met to consider increasing security at its border following two confirmed cases of...
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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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(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...
DAKAR, Senegal: Thousands of people in Sierra Leone are being forced to violate Ebola quarantines to find food because deliveries are not reaching them, aid agencies said.
Large swaths of the West African country have been sealed off to prevent the spread of Ebola, and within those areas many...
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The leader of the World Health Organization criticized the drug industry on Monday, saying that the drive for profit was one reason no vaccine had yet been found for Ebola.
In a Link Removed at a regional conference in Cotonou, Benin, Dr. Margaret Chan, the director general of the W.H.O., also...
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China's foreign ministry says the country's assistance will not stop until the Ebola epidemic is eradicated in West Africa.
China will send an elite military unit to Liberia to help stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, the country's foreign ministry says.
The announcement comes after the...
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The US ambassador to the United Nations has been questioned at a New York airport immediately after returning from Ebola-stricken West Africa.
Samantha Energy arrived at John F Kennedy airport on Thursday on a US government plane just after visiting Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, 3 countries...
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MINNEAPOLIS — THE Ebola epidemic in West Africa has the potential to alter history as much as any plague has ever done.
There have been more than 4,300 cases and 2,300 deaths over the past six months. Last week, the World Health Organization warned that, by early October, there may be thousands...
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(CNN) -- A doctor who recently returned from Guinea has tested positive for Ebola -- the first case of the deadly virus in New York City and the fourth diagnosed in the United States.
Here is a timeline of Craig Spencer's movements since he got back from the West African nation:
When did he...