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  • More than 6,000 people in West Africa are estimated to have contracted the highly contagious Ebola virus. Picture: Official WHO Facebook page.

    Rains hamper delivery of Ebola supplies

    More than 6,000 people in West Africa are estimated to have contracted the highly contagious virus.

    2791 days ago
  • FILE: A girl suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus has her temperature checked at the government hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone, on 16 August 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Scientists grapple with ethics to release Ebola vaccines

    GSK has said it is aiming to have 10,000 doses of its experimental shot by the end of the year.

    2792 days ago
  • FILE: World Health Organisation volunteers putting up a banner warining people about the realness of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Picture: Official WHO Facebook page.

    Ebola: Liberia's top doctor in quarantine

    Bernice Dahn is the latest senior medical official to be directly affected by Ebola.

    2792 days ago
  • World Health Organisation volunteers putting up a banner warining people about the realness of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Picture: Official WHO Facebook page.

    Ebola death toll reaches 3,091

    The World Health Organisation has confirmed the Ebola outbreak death toll has increased to over 3,000.

    2794 days ago
  • World Health Organisation volunteers putting up a banner warining people about the realness of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Picture: Official WHO Facebook page.

    'More than 500,000 Ebola cases by January'

    The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said its projection was based on data from late August.

    2796 days ago
  • FILE: 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.

    Sierra Leone wraps up 3-day Ebola lockdown

    In the most extreme strategy since the epidemic began, Sierra Leone ordered its 6m residents to stay indoors.

    2799 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.

    Ebola cases may be kept within tens of thousands

    The virus has killed 2,461 people, half of the 4,985 infected.

    2804 days ago
  • FILE: The initiative has been spearheaded across Africa by the Wikipedia project in a bid to make Ebola information easily available in any language. Picture: AFP.

    Ebola health info available in all SA languages

    One of the most effective ways of fighting disinformation on the disease is with clear, factual knowledge.

    2804 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.

    Ebola: SA woman tests negative

    The woman was quarantined in Nigeria after presenting Ebola-like symptoms, but ended up having food poisoning.

    2806 days ago
  • FILE: A man prepares to take off his protective suit at Biankouma's hospital during a simulation, on 14 August, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Cuba to send 165 health workers to fight Ebola

    The staff will include doctors, nurses, specialists in infection control and intensive care specialists.

    2809 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian Red Cross health workers wearing protective suits carry the body of a victim of the Ebola virus in a district of Monrovia. Picture: AFP.

    IMF: Ebola will hit West Africa economic growth

    The IMF said economic growth in Sierra Leona was likely to fall to 8 percent from 11.3 percent this year.

    2809 days ago
  • FILE: The Ebola death toll in West Africa has risen above 2,000. Picture: AFP.

    Nigeria testing SA national for Ebola

    A woman is showing potential symptoms after working in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

    2810 days ago
  • FILE: A worker inside the high-risk quarantined zone of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia on 5 September, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Liberia urges more international help fighting Ebola

    The death toll from the worst Ebola outbreak in history has hit at least 2,296 across West Africa.

    2811 days ago
  • FILE: A nurse wears protective clothing as he demonstrates the facilities in place at the Royal Free Hospital in north London on 6 August, 2014, in preparation for a patient testing positive for the Ebola virus. Picture: AFP.

    WHO: Ebola death toll rises to at least 2,296

    The WHO said it had recorded 4,293 cases in five West African countries as of 6 September.

    2811 days ago
  • Medical workers of the Liberian Red Cross, wearing a protective suit, carry the body of a victim of the Ebola virus in a bag on 4 September, 2014 in the small city of Banjol, 30 kilometres of Monrovia. Picture: AFP.

    SADC taking precautionary measures to halt Ebola

    SADC health ministers are holding a two-day emergency meeting to find solutions.

    2816 days ago
  • Patients suffering from Ebola sit at the French NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without borders) Elwa hospital in Monrovia, on 21 August, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Ebola: Health experts to meet

    Health experts are meeting in Geneva to get a global strategy on how to stop the transmission of Ebola.

    2816 days ago
  • Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced that South Africa has banned travel for non-citizens to Ebola hit countries. Picture: Vumani Mkhize/EWN

    Motsoaledi: SA ready to combat Ebola

    Aaron Motsoaledi says 11 hospitals have been designated to deal with any Ebola case in South Africa.

    2817 days ago
  • FILE: A man prepares to take off his protective suit at Biankouma's hospital during a simulation, on 14 August 2014. Picture: AFP.

    MSF calls for greater global response to fight Ebola

    MSF says biological disaster response teams are needed to support West Africa’s buckling healthcare systems.

    2818 days ago
  • FILE: The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 1,552 people out of 3,069 known cases in four countries. Picture: AFP.

    Ebola death toll tops 1,550

    The epidemic in West Africa has killed nearly as many people as all the previous known outbreaks combined.

    2824 days ago
  • FILE: A man prepares to take off his protective suit at Biankouma's hospital during a simulation, on 14 August 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Ebola causing huge damage to West African economies

    The outbreak of the virus is draining budgetary resources and slashing economic growth by up to 4 percent.

    2824 days ago
  • FILE: Experts deployed to Sierra Leone says food and other supplies are depleting. Picture: AFP.

    Ebola: More challenges for SA team in Sierra Leone

    Experts deployed to Sierra Leone says food and other supplies are depleting.

    2826 days ago
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