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FILE: Health specialists prepare for work in an isolation ward for patients at the Doctors Without Borders facility in Gukedou, southern Guinea. Picture: AFP.

Ebola guinea

WHO declares an end to second Ebola outbreak in Guinea

By AFP

The UN body said it had delivered around 24,000 vaccine doses to Guinea and that 11,000 people at high risk had received shots, including more than 2,800...

  • A Guinea health worker wearing a protective suit poses at an Ebola Donka treatment centre in Conakry on 8 December, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    WHO: Guinea declared free of active Ebola transmission

    Guinea will now enter a 90-day period of heightened surveillance to make sure new cases don’t spread.

    2261 days ago
  • FILE: According to UN World Health Organisation figures it has killed around 11,300 people out of around 28,500 known cases in Guinea and neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone. Picture: AFP..

    Guinea records 3 new cases of Ebola, brings total to 9

    The three were infected in Forecariah in western Guinea from the family of a woman who died of Ebola.

    2477 days ago
  • A Guinea health worker wearing a protective suit poses at an Ebola Donka treatment centre in Conakry on 8 December, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    New Ebola cases in Guinea, Sierra Leone

    The WHO says it is setting up a $100 million contingency fund in case of a massive outbreak.

    2640 days ago
  • FILE: Volunteer medics preparing to start their work on the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Picture: The WHO official Facebook page.

    Liberia discharges last known Ebola patient

    Liberias capital Monrovia was once at the heart of an epidemic that killed nearly 10,000 people.

    2714 days ago
  • FILE: Volunteer medics preparing to start their work on the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Picture: The WHO official Facebook page.

    Liberia discharges last known Ebola patient

    Liberia’s capital Monrovia was once at the heart of an epidemic that killed nearly 10,000 people.

    2714 days ago
  • FILE: A Guinea health worker wearing a protective suit poses at an Ebola Donka treatment centre in Conakry on 8 December, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    WHO approves breakthrough 15-minute Ebola test

    The standard laboratory test has a turnaround time of 12-24 hours.

    2728 days ago
  • FILE:Volunteer medics preparing to start their work on the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Picture: The WHO official Facebook page.

    West Africa sees spike in Ebola cases as decline stalls

    Efforts to wipe out the deadly virus were being hampered by people’s mistrust of health workers.

    2736 days ago
  • FILE:Volunteer medics preparing to start their work on the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Picture: The WHO official Facebook page.

    China toughens travel restrictions on West Africans

    China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied there was any change in visa policy for West African applicants.

    2767 days ago
  • Volunteer medics preparing to start their work on the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Picture: The WHO official Facebook page.

    'Ebola volunteers should be praised not stigmatised'

    Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have borne the brunt of the 20,000 infections and nearly 8,000 deaths.

    2772 days ago
  • FILE:A file photo taken on 31 August, 2014 shows children walking past a slogan painted on a wall reading 'Ebola' in Monrovia. Picture: AFP.

    Ebola survivors to share stories via mobile app

    The Ebola outbreak has killed over 7,900 people with more than 20,000 cases recorded.

    2774 days ago
  • Guinean Red Cross workers wearing protective suits carry the corpse of a victim of Ebola in Macenta on November 21, 2014. The World Health Organisation said that 5,420 people have so far died of Ebola across eight countries, out of a total 15,145 cases of infection, since late December 2013. AFP

    Sierra Leone's president calls for week of fasting for Ebola

    The worst outbreak on record of the virus is still spreading in West Africa, especially in Sierra Leone.

    2777 days ago
  • FILE: A Guinea health worker wearing a protective suit poses at an Ebola Donka treatment centre in Conakry on 8 December 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Ebola case confirmed in Scotland

    The patient will be transferred to a high-level isolation unit in the Royal Free Hospital in London.

    2780 days ago
  • FILE:A file photo taken on 31 August, 2014 shows children walking past a slogan painted on a wall reading 'Ebola' in Monrovia. Picture: AFP.

    Ebola outbreak: Death toll rises to 7,588

    The virus is still spreading intensely in Sierra Leone, especially in the north and west.

    2785 days ago
  • FILE:Adidas Brazil 2014 official soccerballs. Picture: AFP.

    Guinea to prepare for Afcon in Morocco

    The Guinea Football Federation says the side will play Morocco’s under-23 side in El Jadida on 10 January.

    2785 days ago
  • A file photo taken on 31 August, 2014 shows children walking past a slogan painted on a wall reading 'Ebola' in Monrovia. Picture: AFP.

    'Response to West Africa Ebola outbreak too slow'

    A Parliamentary committee has said the WHO and donors responded too slowly to the outbreak.

    2792 days ago
  • WHO volunteers put up a banner warning people about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Picture: Official WHO Facebook page.

    Ebola spreading in western S Leone, Guinea's forest

    The death toll in West Africa has risen to 6,331 in the three worst hit countries.

    2801 days ago
  • FILE: Guinean Red Cross workers wearing protective suits carry the corpse of a victim of Ebola in Macenta on 21 November 2014. AFP

    Ebola batters economies of hardest hit countries

    The World Bank said growth estimates for the three countries hardest hit by Ebola had tumbled since October.

    2807 days ago
  • FILE: Graca Machel says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has highlighted a crisis of identity on the continent. Picture: Reinart Toerien/EWN.

    Ebola: Machel urges African leaders to seek help on continent

    Graca Machel says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has highlighted a crisis of identity on the continent.

    2818 days ago
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