New Ebola cases hit lowest in a yearThirty confirmed cases of Ebola were reported in West Africa in the past week, the smallest number in nearly a year of the worst ever outbreak of the deadly fever, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. "This is the More… |
US airlines highlight problems of Ebola travel banUS airlines have said little publicly about political pressure to close the country's borders to travellers from Ebola-ravaged countries in West Africa, but in private they have briefed government officials about the challenges to implementi More… |
Obama expands US role fighting Ebola spreadPresident Barack Obama has called West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak a looming threat to global security and announced a major expansion of the US role in trying to halt its spread, including deployment of 3,000 troops to the region. More… |
Obama expands US role fighting Ebola spreadPresident Barack Obama has called West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak a looming threat to global security and announced a major expansion of the US role in trying to halt its spread, including deployment of 3,000 troops to the region. More… |
Ebola deaths jump by 200 in a day, top 2,290The death toll from the worst Ebola outbreak in history has jumped by almost 200 in a single day to at least 2,296 and is already likely to be higher than that, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The WHO said it had re More… |
Ebola outbreak reaches fifth West African countryThe West African state of Senegal became the fifth country to be hit by the world's worst Ebola outbreak on Friday, while riots broke out in neighbouring Guinea's remote southeast where infection rates are rising fast. In More… |
Liberia fights Ebola as W Africa toll tops 1,200Liberia battled on Tuesday to halt the spread of the Ebola disease in its crowded, run-down oceanside capital Monrovia, recording the most new deaths as fatalities from the world's worst outbreak of the deadly virus rose above 1,200. More… |
Kenya Airways to cut W Africa service over EbolaKenya Airways will suspend flights to Liberia's capital Monrovia and Sierra Leone's capital Freetown due to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the company said on Saturday. The suspension of the flights will start at midni More… |
BA suspends Liberia and Sierra Leone flightsBritish Airways has suspended flights to and from Liberia and Sierra Leone until the end of the month due to public health concerns, the airline said. More than 800 people have died in an outbreak of Ebola in West Africa which began in More… |
Taxis, planes and viruses: How deadly Ebola can spreadFor scientists tracking the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, it's not about complex virology and genotyping, but about how contagious microbes - like humans - use planes, bikes and taxis to spread. So far, authorities have t More… |