ebola outbreak

As the situation in Sierra Leone shows no sign of relenting, health care workers are at increased risk of catching the deadly disease.

Jayalakshmi K Dec 10, 2014

North Korea says US should be tried before international court for masterminding disease outbreak.

Jack Moore Dec 02, 2014

Ebola response team leader says two out of three countries worst affected are treating 70% of patients.

Ludovica Iaccino Dec 01, 2014

Tony Banbury refuses to confirm if targets have been reached in battle against deadly virus.

Jack Moore Dec 01, 2014

NIAID trial finds expected immune response and safety of experimental Ebola vaccine

Jayalakshmi K Nov 27, 2014

Forty-year-old Zulfiqar Ahmad had recently returned to Pakistan from Togo on 16 November.

Maria Khan Nov 24, 2014

Germany has donated motorbikes to Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

Sean Martin Nov 24, 2014

Despite relatively stable situation in Guinea, experts are calling for more efforts and global support.

Jayalakshmi K Nov 24, 2014

World's top footballers lend their names to poster campaign with advice on how to stop the spread of Ebola

Lewis Dean Nov 17, 2014

Salia tenth Ebola patient to be treated in United States and third at Nebraska Medical Center.

Jack Moore Nov 17, 2014

WHO, Mali government and CDC call for preventing epidemic in poor country.

Jayalakshmi K Nov 16, 2014

World leaders convene in Australia to discuss topics including Ebola outbreak, Ukraine crisis, global economy and climate change.

Vasudevan Sridharan Nov 15, 2014

Equatorial Guinea will host tournament despite capital being closer to Ebola zone than Morocco's.

Lewis Dean Nov 14, 2014

Médecins sans Frontières will begin trials of favipiravir and brincidofovir next month.

Lydia Smith Nov 13, 2014

Medecins Sans Frontieres to begin three trials in treatment centres in West Africa.

Jack Moore Nov 13, 2014

Mali authorities have quarantined 70 people who came in contact with a nurse in a Bamako clinic.

Sean Martin Nov 12, 2014

West African regions hit by Ebola are seeing a drastic drop in maternity patients, causing concerns of high maternal mortality rates.

Jayalakshmi K Nov 12, 2014

Spencer released from hospital after being given all-clear from virus contracted in Guinea.

Jack Moore Nov 11, 2014

Former Ebola patient accuses health minister of making comments that tarnished her image.

Ludovica Iaccino Nov 10, 2014

Medical charity warns that cases are on the rise in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Jack Moore Nov 07, 2014

Dump truck rushes the migrants away from the Gran Canaria nudist beach in front of shocked tourists.

Maria Khan Nov 06, 2014

Doctors warn that African migrants bring possibility of Ebola outbreak in Italy

Ludovica Iaccino Nov 06, 2014

Head of UN response mission says villages are not receiving any help due to lack of resources.

Ludovica Iaccino Nov 06, 2014

Fears are up that the Ebola epidemic will spread further as people break quarantines to fetch food.

Jayalakshmi K Nov 05, 2014

BREAKING: Woman admitted herself to London hospital after recently returning from West Africa.

Jack Moore Nov 03, 2014

A drop in the number of cases reported and burials in Liberia indicate a levelling off of Ebola cases.

Jayalakshmi K Oct 30, 2014

New study shows that at least 12,000 disease outbreaks occurred in 219 countries between 1980 and 2013.

Ludovica Iaccino Oct 29, 2014

African Advocacy Council says there is a rise in hate crimes in the US following the Ebola outbreak.

Maria Khan Oct 27, 2014

Sales of a mobile game Plague Inc dominated the iPhone download charts and hit the number one paid-for spot in the UK last week.

Fiona Keating Oct 26, 2014

The situation in Ebola-hit nations in West Africa is grim with the virus nowhere near being controlled according to the Pentagon.

Jayalakshmi K Oct 26, 2014