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

Ebola nigeria

Ten quarantined in Nigeria over Ebola scare

By Reuters

Nigeria was declared Ebola free in October last year.

  • FILE: Response teams were sent to Masambio on Thursday to collect samples for testing. Picture: AFP

    Congo and WHO investigate possible Ebola outbreak

    Response teams were sent to Masambio on Thursday to collect samples for testing.

    2121 days ago
  • FILE: Volunteer medics preparing to start their work on the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. Picture: The WHO official Facebook page.

    Study: Experimental Ebola drug cures lab monkeys

    In the experiment, six rhesus monkeys were infected with huge doses of the Makona strain.

    2192 days ago
  • An MSF medical worker feeds an Ebola child victim at an MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone on 15 August, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    MSF report: Ebola epidemic not yet over

    The report also says that the world’s slow reaction to Ebola resulted in 'horrendous consequences'.

    2223 days ago
  • FILE:Liberian Red Cross health workers wearing protective suits carry the body of a victim of the Ebola virus out of a garage on 10 September, 2014 in a district of Monrovia. Picture: AFP.

    US isolates troops, Oz imposes visa ban on Ebola-hit states

    The latest measures have been condemned by health authorities and the UN as extreme.

    2368 days ago
  • An Ebola sign placed in front of a home in the West Point slum area of Monrovia, Liberia. Picture: EPA.

    Ebola death toll tops 4,900

    The WHO said the Ebola death toll rose to 4,922 out of 10,141 known cases in eight countries.

    2371 days ago
  • GSK expects to have the first doses of its Ebola vaccine ready late this year. Picture: EPA.

    First Ebola vaccine doses to be ready late 2014

    GSK expects to have the first doses of its Ebola vaccine ready late this year.

    2374 days ago
  • FILE: An Ebola sign placed in front of a home in the West Point slum area of Monrovia, Liberia. Picture: EPA.

    Hope for Ebola as medical experts work to find vaccine

    Canada's Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp says it has begun manufacturing an Ebola drug.

    2375 days ago
  • Liberian health workers in a burial squad carrying the body of an Ebola victim in Monrovia in September 2014. Picture: EPA.

    Plane passenger tests negative for Ebola

    A Nigerian passenger who was taken to a Madrid hospital from an Air France flight tested negative for Ebola.

    2380 days ago
  • FILE: Anti-Ebola equipment. Picture: Reinart Toerien/EWN

    Jamaica announces travel ban on Ebola

    The govt also said Jamaican citizens and residents would be quarantined in the interest of public health.

    2380 days ago
  • A volunteer in protective suit looks on after spraying disinfectant outside a home in Waterloo, some 30 kilometres southeast of Freetown, on 7 October 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Worst Ebola outbreak on record tests global response

    Global health authorities are struggling to contain the world’s worst Ebola epidemic.

    2380 days ago
  • FILE: Members of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) wear protective gear at the isolation ward of the Donka Hospital in Conakry on 23 July, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    MSF: More resources needed to fight Ebola

    Doctors working in the region say their work is severely affected by an underfunded health system.

    2382 days ago
  • FILE: An MSF medical worker feeds an Ebola child victim at an MSF facility in Kailahun, on 15 August, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Ebola fears spread as Spanish nurse worsens

    African leaders called on other countries to provide more money and equipment to deal with the Ebola crisis.

    2387 days ago
  • Liberian nurses carry the body of a suspected victim of Ebola at the Sonuwein community in Monrovia, Liberia, 3 October 2014. Picture: EPA/Ahmed Jallanzo.

    WHO: Ebola deep-rooted in worst affected countries

    The warning comes as more countries will be screening people from areas struck by Ebola.

    2387 days ago
  • The boots of health workers after being disinfected at the Medicines Sans Frontier (MSF) Ebola Treatment Unit in Monrovia, Liberia. Picture: Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA.

    NICD warns against Ebola predictions

    Scientists have predicted that Ebola will spread to France and Britain by the end of this month.

    2390 days ago
  • FILE: An agent of the national public health institute poses with a thermometer at the airport, in Abidjan on 12 August, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    US working on new screenings for Ebola

    President Barack Obama said it was important to follow existing protocols strictly.

    2390 days ago
  • NICD says the man died of heart problems and a bacterial infection which resulted to bleeding yesterday. Picture: AFP.

    NICD: SA man didn't die of Ebola

    NICD says the man died of heart problems and a bacterial infection which resulted to bleeding yesterday.

    2393 days ago
  • A medical transport van moves past Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas where a patient has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus on 30 September, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. Picture: AFP.

    First Ebola patient diagnosed in US

    The diagnosis is a sign that the outbreak ravaging West Africa may spread globally.

    2396 days ago
  • FILE: An agent of the national public health institute poses with a thermometer at the airport, in Abidjan on 12 August, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    UN Ebola mission head wants progress in 60 days

    At least 3,091 people have died from Ebola since the West African outbreak was first reported.

    2396 days ago
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