Ebola virus
As Ebola flares up, Guinea plans to vaccinate contacts of survivors
Health & Fitness
April 3, 2016
As Ebola flares up, Guinea plans to vaccinate contacts of survivors
Guinea will soon vaccinate people who have come into contact with more than 500 men who have recovered from Ebola,…
Ebola survivors can harbor virus in semen for at least nine months
Health & Fitness
October 16, 2015
Ebola survivors can harbor virus in semen for at least nine months
Ebola virus can exist in the semen of male survivors of the disease for at least nine months after their…
WHO: Ebola virus found in semen 6 months after recovery
Health & Fitness
April 15, 2015
WHO: Ebola virus found in semen 6 months after recovery
Traces of Ebola have been found in the semen of a man six months after his recovery, the World Health…
Ebola death toll tops 10,000, says WHO
World
March 12, 2015
Ebola death toll tops 10,000, says WHO
More than 10,000 people have now died from the Ebola virus, almost all of them in West Africa, the World…
Hunger and frustration grow at Ebola ground zero in Guinea
Features/Interviews
March 4, 2015
Hunger and frustration grow at Ebola ground zero in Guinea
A charred kapok tree and around a dozen graves scattered amongst the mud brick houses of Meliandou are painful reminders…
Johnson & Johnson start Ebola vaccine clinical tests
World
January 6, 2015
Johnson & Johnson start Ebola vaccine clinical tests
US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday that it has started human trials on a possible vaccine against Ebola.The…
Scientists: Hollow tree was Ebola’s Ground Zero
World
December 30, 2014
Scientists: Hollow tree was Ebola’s Ground Zero
Insect-eating bats that inhabited a hollow tree in a remote village in Guinea may have been the source of the…
WHO: Ebola death toll rises to 7,693
World
December 26, 2014
WHO: Ebola death toll rises to 7,693
The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in west Africa has risen to 7,693 out of 19,695 cases recorded, the…
Ebola expert calls for European anti-virus ‘corps’
World
December 26, 2014
Ebola expert calls for European anti-virus ‘corps’
Europe will be "vulnerable" if it does not regard viruses as a "national security issue" like the United States, the…
IMF policies criticised over Ebola outbreak
World
December 22, 2014
IMF policies criticised over Ebola outbreak
International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies left healthcare systems in the African countries worst affected by Ebola underfunded and lacking doctors,…