AFP | The UN’s health agency on Thursday declared an end to a nearly 4-month epidemic of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, saying the disease, a...
AFP | Uganda said on Monday it was expected to declare an end to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged late last year and has claimed...
Reuters | Uganda has discharged its last known Ebola patient from hospital, a senior health official said on Friday, raising hopes that an outbreak which has...
Bloomberg | Two vaccines being developed to treat the type of Ebola that’s killed 29 people in Uganda may start clinical trials in the coming weeks,...
AFP | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) said Thursday that the latest Ebola outbreak was officially over, as the country marked 42 days with...
A corpse has tested positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone, an official said Friday, the day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak over...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an end to the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever on Thursday after no new cases emerged in Liberia, though health...
The World Health Organization (WHO)’s failure to sound the alarm until months into West Africa’s Ebola outbreak was an “egregious failure” which added to the enormous...
Cheers erupted in the streets Saturday as Sierra Leone marked the end of the Ebola outbreak within its borders. Neighboring Guinea still struggles to stamp out...
Liberia is now free of Ebola after going more than 42 days – twice the maximum incubation period for the deadly disease – without any new...
The number of Ebola cases reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone last week dropped to 18, the lowest total this year. According to health officials in...
Schools have re-opened in Liberia for the first time after a six-month hiatus designed to stem the spread of the worst Ebola outbreak in history –...
Latest reports indicate that Liberia is dealing with just 5 remaining cases of Ebola, in the clearest sign yet that the country is nearing the end...
Sierra Leone on Friday lifted crippling nationwide restrictions on movement put in place at the height of the Ebola crisis, amid signs that the deadly epidemic...
Health officials in Haiti have dismissed reports that the first case of Ebola has been detected in the country. According to the country’s Minister of Public...
Professors from 3 leading British universities say International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies favoring international debt repayment over social spending contributed to the Ebola crisis by hampering...
Actor Idris Elba and a host of international soccer stars of Africa origin have launched a public awareness campaign on Wednesday to help halt Ebola epidemic...
While the rapid response to the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria was a significant factor in quelling the spread of the deadly disease, the country has other...
Sierra Leone has sealed off the borders with Liberia and Guinea in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola, the government spokesman said on Tuesday....
Bahamas Health Minister Perry Gomez has dismissed as “bogus” a report that a confirmed case of the Ebola virus, which has infected thousands of people in...
Deserted neighborhood in Freetown during the 3-day national lockdown. PHOTO/Umaru Fofana/Reuters Streets in the capital of Sierra Leone were deserted on Friday as the West African...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is formalizing recommendations to deal with any possible incidence of the Ebola virus and is also improving efforts to respond to the...
The African Union was preparing Monday to send a team of 30 health workers and other specialists to help fight an Ebola outbreak that killed more...
Nigerian authorities are monitoring nearly 400 people for signs of Ebola after they came in contact with a Port Harcourt doctor who died of the disease...
West African states should re-open their borders and end flight bans put in place to halt the spread of Ebola, the Economic Community of West African...
By Laura Seay and Kim Yi Dionne This week’s Newsweek magazine cover features an image of a chimpanzee behind the words, “A Back Door for Ebola:...
Uganda’s Ministry of Health stated that there is no confirmed case of Ebola in the country. The suspected Ebola patient screened at Entebbe International Airport has tested...
Africapitalist proponent, Tony Elumelu has pledged N100 million ($617,000), through his foundation, to help battle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. He will be joining a...
Kenya is closing its borders to travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the 3 countries worst hit by the Ebola outbreak, the government said Saturday....
When Ebola hit Uganda two years ago, the country’s president quickly went on national TV and urged Ugandans to avoid touching each other. Health officials speedily...
Liberia announced on Wednesday the quarantine of a number of communities and the closure of schools across the country, the toughest measures yet imposed by a...
Liberia has closed all but 3 land border crossings, restricted public gatherings and quarantined communities heavily affected by the Ebola outbreak in the West African nation....
The Ebola outbreak in three West African countries is already the deadliest to date with over 500 fatalities, and is expected to be the longest on...
Ebola is continuing to spread in three West African countries and the death toll in the outbreak has risen to more than 330. Health officials are...
Sierra Leone has announced a state of emergency in the Kailahun district from the outbreak of the Ebola virus which has claimed 17 lives, banning public...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday that Liberia has confirmed 2 cases of the deadly Ebola virus that is suspected to have killed at...
West African nations are working to contain an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus suspected to have killed at least 59 people in Guinea, with symptoms...
