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Belgian scientist who helped discover Ebola in 1976 has accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of mismanaging the current outbreak response. Peter Piot, an award-winning microbiologist, told Al Jazeera that "we wasted too much precious time". "It took three months for the WHO to find out...

Though it is not in the headlines much these days, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is worsening, with the number of infected people and the number of people killed by the disease being dramatically underreported. In fact, as noted by Britain’s The Guardian newspaper, the number of people in...

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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...

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...

Doctors attack 'armchair intellectuals' at World Health Organisation who refuse to let them treat deadly virus with snake venom remedy Medics want to treat Ebola victims with remedies backed by Prince Charles They accuse critics of 'ridiculous' disbelief over snake venom treatments Say World...

Thirty Ebola experts who traveled recently to West Africa, including an official of the World Health Organization, have been banned from attending a New Orleans medical meeting about infectious diseases. The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has warned doctors and others who returned...

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...

Q: Is the Ebola epidemic ending in Africa? A: No one knows exactly what is going on in West Africa. Several medical groups, like Doctors Without Borders, are reporting that they suddenly have far more beds than patients. In some cases, there are empty beds at centers where, just a few weeks ago...

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...