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A case of Ebola has been detected in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, more than six weeks after the last case, the government said in a statement. The central African country planned on Sunday to declare an end to the…
Guinea has declared a 45-day “health emergency” in five regions of the African country to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola disease. In a statement published in national media on Saturday, Guinean President Alpha Conde said that he…
Liberia reported its first Ebola case in weeks on Friday, a woman whom authorities suspect may have contracted the virus through sexual intercourse with a survivor, in a setback to efforts to halt the outbreak in West Africa. Liberian…
The Ebola virus is spreading intensely across Sierra Leone, prompting the World Health Organisation (WHO) to again revise the death toll upwards to 6,070 out of 17,145 cases. Sierra Leone recorded 537 new Ebola cases in the week to…
A Sierra Leonean doctor has died from Ebola, bringing the number of doctors killed by the virus to seven, a medical source says. “Dr Michael Kargbo died this afternoon,” said a senior health worker at the Hastings Treatment Centre…
A woman with a “history of travel to West Africa” has been tested for the Ebola virus in a hospital in south London, local media reported. According to a spokesperson of St George’s Hospital in Tooting, the woman was…
Editor’s note: this story has been amended to reflect that the primary source was submitted to and published by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy; the research and findings reflected did not originate with CIDRAP and should not…
A 14-year-old Brooklyn boy was rushed to a hospital with Ebola-like symptoms Friday night, New York Daily News reported, citing officials. The 2014 Ebola outbreak has claimed 4, 033 lives out of 8, 399 documented cases in West Africa, while…
A British man suffering from suspected Ebola has died in Macedonia, it has been reported. The unnamed man ‘s death was announced by a senior Macedonian Government official. A second Briton had shown symptoms of the virus, the…
Sierra Leone has quarantined more than 1 million people in the largest lockdown in west Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak Three new districts and 12 tribal chiefdoms have been restricted with immediate affect after a lockdown last week helped health…
