Fox By Jessica Mulvihill What Is Ebola? Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe, often fatal hemorrhagic disease that first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks. One outbreak was in Sudan and the other was in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a village near the Ebola River — from which the disease got
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AFP Senegal has not reported any new Ebola cases since it registered its first and only case on August 29 — a Guinean student who has since recovered. THE deadliest Ebola epidemic ever has now killed 2,793 in west Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Monday, adding though that in Senegal and Nigeria the outbreak
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David Jackson, USA TODAY JEWEL SAMAD, AFP/Getty Images President Obama on Tuesday will announce an expansion of a $763 million U.S. plan to help West Africa nations fight the spread of the Ebola virus, officials said Monday night. Adding to an existing project, the project calls for more doctors and health care providers; more portable
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David Jackson, USA TODAY JEWEL SAMAD, AFP/Getty Images President Obama on Tuesday will announce an expansion of a $763 million U.S. plan to help West Africa nations fight the spread of the Ebola virus, officials said Monday night. Adding to an existing project, the project calls for more doctors and health care providers; more portable
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Washington Examiner BY PAUL BEDARD The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning hospitals and doctors that “now is the time to prepare,” has issued a six-page Ebola “checklist” to help healthcare workers quickly determine if patients are infected. While the CDC does not believe that there are new cases of Ebola in the United
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Washington Examiner BY PAUL BEDARD The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning hospitals and doctors that “now is the time to prepare,” has issued a six-page Ebola “checklist” to help healthcare workers quickly determine if patients are infected. While the CDC does not believe that there are new cases of Ebola in the United
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BBC By James Gallagher Blood from people who had Ebola could be used as a treatment The blood of patients who recover from Ebola should be used to treat others, the World Health Organization has announced. West Africa is facing the largest Ebola outbreak in history and more than 2,000 people have died. A global
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By James Gallagher BBC Ebola virus genetics The only clinical trial data on the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp shows it is 100% effective in monkey studies, even in later stages of the infection. The researchers, publishing their data in Nature, said it was a “very important step forward”. Yet the limited supplies will not help
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BBC Medecins Sans Frontieres says the outbreak will take at least six months to bring under control Kenyan officials say the country is closing its borders to travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in response to the deadly Ebola outbreak. Kenya’s health secretary said Kenyans and medical workers flying in from those states would
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African Spotlight An experimental drug for treatment of Ebola has been provided by a Nigerian in diaspora and will arrive the country today, the minister for health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said. The drug, called “Nanosilver”, can now be used following the approval by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that experimental treatments are ethical in the
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