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Sierra Leone has enforced a curfew in the face of renewed outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus in the north west of the country. The government has extended the state of emergency Sierra Leone’s president has announced a three-week curfew…
Sierra Leone yesterday reported its first confirmed Ebola case in 8 days, as the virus flared in a new hot spot in Guinea, tempering the encouragement from a report earlier this week that both countries were making progress toward zero…
Liberia is now free of the Ebola virus that’s killed more than 11,000 people worldwide. It was welcoming news for people and especially for a local family whose relative was the first person to die of the disease on…
For the first time, Ebola has been discovered inside the eyes of a patient months after the virus was gone from his blood. Ebola has infected more than 26,000 people since December 2013 in West Africa. Some survivors have…
Ebola has struck again in the district where the epidemic originated in Sierra Leone, dashing hopes of a recovery after more than three months during which no cases had been reported. The ministry of health and sanitation confirmed a…
A patient who arrived from West Africa ten days ago and had Ebola-like symptoms has been transferred from a hospital in Barrie, Ont. to Ontario’s designated Ebola response centre at Sunnybrook Health Centre in Toronto. The Royal Victoria Regional…
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…
Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Koromo ordered the country’s entire population Saturday to keep to their homes on March 27-29 in a bid to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola epidemic. “All Sierra Leoneans must stay at home for…
Two volunteers have been transferred to the UK after potential contact with the Ebola virus in separate incidents. Public Health England said the patients’ risk of having the virus was low and the measure was a precaution. Authorities…
