BBC The current outbreak is the deadliest since Ebola was discovered in 1976 The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified Kenya as a “high-risk” country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Kenya was vulnerable because it was a major transport hub, with many flights from West Africa, a WHO official said. This is
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Anadolu Agency “So far no Ebola case was reported in Ethiopia,” Abel Yeshaneh, spokesperson for the Ethiopian Public Health Institute, told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday. ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia has denied reports of the spread of Ebola in the country, saying steps were being taken to raise awareness about the deadly virus. “So far no Ebola
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Anadolu Agency “So far no Ebola case was reported in Ethiopia,” Abel Yeshaneh, spokesperson for the Ethiopian Public Health Institute, told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday. ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia has denied reports of the spread of Ebola in the country, saying steps were being taken to raise awareness about the deadly virus. “So far no Ebola
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The New York Times By ANDREW POLLACK The doctor who had been leading Sierra Leone’s battle against the Ebola outbreak was now fighting for his own life, and his international colleagues faced a fateful decision: whether to give him a drug that had never before been tested on people. Would the drug, known as ZMapp, help the stricken
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By Lindsay Cohen Komo News SEATTLE — Authorities have identified the two men who drowned in Seattle’s Green Lake as 23-year old Abenezer Getachew of Snohomish County and 21-year old Euel Desta of Shoreline. Both men were students at Shoreline Community College, according to a spokesman there. Desta was studying engineering and loved sports, friends
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IRIN Photo: Lauren Everitt/AllAfrica Addis Ababa — After decades battling high maternal death rates – at least a third of which were due to botched abortions – Ethiopia took a stand: it prioritized newborn and maternal health, and in 2005 it relaxed its abortion law in an effort to save women’s lives. Stopping short of legalizing
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Drugs A vaccine for the deadly Ebola virus could become a reality in less than a year, one expert says. As the death toll in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa nears 1,000, several groups of scientists are racing to produce a vaccine to protect against the disease. And the developer of one of these
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BBC A Liberian woman weeps over the death of a relative from Ebola on the outskirts of Monrovia The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the spread of Ebola in West Africa an international health emergency. WHO officials said a coordinated international response was essential to stop and reverse the spread of the virus. The
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TV360 Nigeria US President Barack Obama has said it is “premature” to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, where the outbreak of the virus has hit the most. US President Barack Obama has said it is “premature” to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West
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TV360 Nigeria US President Barack Obama has said it is “premature” to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, where the outbreak of the virus has hit the most. US President Barack Obama has said it is “premature” to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West
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