Ebola screening
Study: Experimental Ebola drug cures lab monkeys
In the experiment, six rhesus monkeys were infected with huge doses of the Makona strain.
Foreign businessmen are trickling into Ebola-stricken towns, sparking thoughts of recovery.
Efforts to wipe out the deadly virus were being hampered by people’s mistrust of health workers.
MSF says the decrease is an opportunity to fix response and treatment programmes.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied there was any change in visa policy for West African applicants.
Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have borne the brunt of the 20,000 infections and nearly 8,000 deaths.
The Ebola outbreak has killed over 7,900 people with more than 20,000 cases recorded.
The worst outbreak on record of the virus is still spreading in West Africa, especially in Sierra Leone.
The patient will be transferred to a high-level isolation unit in the Royal Free Hospital in London.
The virus is still spreading intensely in Sierra Leone, especially in the north and west.
Victor Willoughby contracted the virus after treating a man with organ-related problems.
A Parliamentary committee has said the WHO and donors responded too slowly to the outbreak.
Health workers will seek Ebola victims and anyone with whom they have had contact.
The WHO said on Wednesday that it had sent a response team to the diamond-rich Kono district.
The World Bank said growth estimates for the three countries hardest hit by Ebola had tumbled since October.
She said Africans have forgotten the lessons learnt from the HIV/Aids pandemic.
A doctor who treated the patient that sparked a 2nd wave of Ebola in Mali has died.
The cost of the Ebola epidemic for Sub-Saharan Africa’s economy is likely to be closer to $3bn-$4bn.
Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said the virus could reverse some of the gains made in the past years.