west africa

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...

The peak season for Lassa fever in West Africa is about to begin. The viral haemorrhagic fever has been largely forgotten in the Ebola crisis, and health workers are warning that they may not have the resources to deal with the disease if cases increase. At first sight the symptoms of Lassa are...

(Reuters) - A New York doctor with Ebola, whose case triggered a national debate over mandatory quarantines for health workers returning from West Africa, was upgraded to stable condition on Saturday after nine days of treatment. Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, the only person in the United States...

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...

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...

The Ebola epidemic in west Africa may have reached a turning point, according to the director of the Wellcome Trust, which is funding an unprecedented series of fast-tracked trials of vaccines and drugs against the disease. Writing in the Guardian, Dr Jeremy Farrar says that although there are...

White House officials warned the governors of New York and New Jersey of the “unintended consequences” of quarantining all medical workers returning from west Africa, as a political crisis deepened on Sunday over how to counter public fears about the spread of Ebola in the US. At first, amid a...