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A volunteer recieves the ebola vaccination "cAd3-EBO-Z" at the vaccines center in Bamako, Mali, 09 October 2014. Human trials of the Ebola vaccine have started in Africa after being trialed in the USA and Great Britain. Three employees of the health department in Mali were the first people in Africa to receive the vaccine. EPA/ALEX DUVAL SMITH

First ebola case in us

Mali confirms new case of Ebola

By Reuters

Local officials and diplomats said the new case was unrelated to the first one last month.

  • 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.

    2761 days ago
  • New York residents are fearing the deadly Ebola virus will spread in the city after a US doctor contracted the disease. Picture: EPA.

    Concerns raised over NY Ebola quarantine plan

    A policy of quarantine was announced for health workers returning to the US from West Africa.

    2762 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian health workers in a burial squad carrying the body of an Ebola victim in Monrovia in September 2014. Picture: EPA.

    Mali confirms first case of Ebola

    Mali confirmed its first case of Ebola just hours after New York.

    2765 days ago
  • FILE: A Sierra Leone Red Cross burial team at Jobo Farm in Waterloo outside Freetown disinfects after recovering the bodies of those believed to have died of Ebola. Picture: EPA.

    WHO holds two-day emergency meeting on Ebola

    WHO says the number of people with Ebola is set to hit 10,000 in West Africa.

    2767 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.

    2767 days ago
  • FILE: An Ebola sign placed in front of a home in the West Point slum area of Monrovia, Liberia. Picture: EPA.

    Ebola: US forms task team

    The US military is forming a team equipped to provide direct treatment to patients inside the country.

    2770 days ago
  • An asset management firm says if Ebola is contained it won’t have a long term effect on foreign investment. Picture: EPA.

    'Ebola isn't sinking investor confidence'

    An asset management firm says if Ebola is contained it won’t have a long term effect on foreign investment.

    2770 days ago
  • FILE: In Alabama the CDC is training health care workers to fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Picture: CNN.

    Obama names Ebola 'czar'

    President Barack Obama named officials to bolster the response to Ebola in Texas

    2771 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.

    2773 days ago
  • FILE: 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.

    Obama calls for calm amid US Ebola fears

    Three people have now been diagnosed with the hemorrhagic fever in the United States.

    2773 days ago
  • FILE: 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.

    Another Texas healthcare worker tests positive for Ebola

    The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital was immediately isolated after reporting a fever on Tuesday.

    2774 days ago
  • A general view of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas is seen where patient Thomas Eric Duncan is being treated for the Ebola virus on 4 October, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. Picture: AFP.

    ‘Nurse’s Ebola caused by protocol breach’

    Healthcare experts criticised the assertion that a “protocol breach” caused a Dallas nurse’s Ebola infection.

    2776 days ago
  • A general view of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas is seen where patient Thomas Eric Duncan is being treated for the Ebola virus on 4 October, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. Picture: AFP

    Texas worker tests positive for Ebola, US airports start screening

    The worker at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital reported a low-grade fever Friday night.

    2777 days ago
  • A worker in a Personal Protection Equipment suit (PPE) uses a stick to move garbage inside the high-risk quarantined zone of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia on 5 September,2014. Picture: AFP.

    Zimbabwe: Ebola scare patient to be discharged, suffers from Malaria

    Doctors plan to discharge a patient who caused an Ebola scare, saying she was only suffering from Malaria.

    2777 days ago
  • A health worker stands near a man suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus as he lies on the ground naked after he was admitted to Island Hospital in Monrovia on 2 October 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Spanish Ebola victim conscious & sitting unaided

    The nurse was conscious & sitting as three more people joined 12 hospitalised to be monitored for Ebola.

    2778 days ago
  • A member of the Hazmat crew carries a barrel down stairs from the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan the Ebola patient was staying in Dallas, Texas on 3 October 2014. EPA/Larry Smith.

    Ebola screening starts at JFK airport

    Medical teams have started screening travellers from three West African countries at New York’s JFK airport.

    2778 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.

    Ebola: Govt places special emphasis on airports

    Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says his dept is analysing various probabilities of how Ebola could enter SA.

    2779 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.

    2779 days ago
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