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US tracing New York Ebola patient’s movements, panic spreads
New York City’s Bellevue Hospital Center, where the first person in the city to test positive for Ebola has been quarantined.
US health officials say they are tracing New York City’s first Ebola patient movements and seeking to ensure that they have found and isolated everyone who came into contact with him, as panic grips the country.
Dr. Craig Spencer reported symptoms for the deadly virus...
Leading U.S. scientist warns Ebola is already changing to become more contagious
A Liberian Red Cross burial team out on suits as they go to collect a suspected Ebola victim in Monrovia. A scientists has now warned that the virus could be getting even more contagious.
The deadly Ebola virus could be mutating to become even more contagious, a leading U.S scientist has warned.
The disease has killed nearly 4,000 people, infecting in excess of 8,000, the majority in the West African...
Caribbean countries announce Ebola travel bans
A group of Caribbean countries have announced bans on entry to foreigners who have travelled through the three West African countries most affected by Ebola.
Jamaica said it would not accept travellers from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone for the time being.
Guyana, the island of St Lucia, Haiti and Colombia also introduced a ban.
In the United States, President Barack Obama has resisted pressure...
Number of Ebola cases doubling every four weeks
The World Health Organization (WHO) says the number of Ebola infections in West Africa is doubling every four weeks despite efforts to stop the spread of the deadly virus.
Isabelle Nuttall, the director of the WHO’s Global Capacities, Alert and Response, announced on Thursday that 9,000 people have so far been infected with Ebola, adding that the death toll from the disease will rise to more than...
IAEA to deliver Ebola diagnosis technology to Africa
A healthcare worker checks the temperature of an Ebola-infected woman at a World Health Organization center in Liberia on October 3, 2014.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) plans to provide the Ebola-ravaged West African countries with specialized diagnostic equipment.
A nuclear-derived diagnostic technology will be delivered to the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone...
Death toll from Ebola virus exceeds 4000
The death toll from the deadly Ebola virus has exceeded 4,000 as the disease continues to claim more lives, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
The latest data released on Friday by the UN health agency showed that up to the end of October 8, 8,399 confirmed, probable, or suspected cases were reported in seven countries.
The report added that 4,033 people have also died from the disease.
According...
75% chance Ebola will reach France by end October, 50% for UK
Scientists estimate there’s a 75 percent chance the Ebola virus could spread to France and a 50 percent chance it could reach UK by the end of October. The latest research analyzes the pattern of infection and airline traffic.
The consensus among health officials is now that the deadly virus is no longer just an African problem, and key to this assessment are the European Union’s free movement...
Experimental Ebola vaccine's human trial begins in US
A girl walks past a slogan painted on a wall reading “Stop Ebola” in Monrovia on August 31, 2014.
An experimental US Ebola vaccine is being trialed on humans at the country’s National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
The vaccine has been developed by the agency’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and GlaxoSmithKline.
Twenty healthy...
Ebola death toll rises to 1229 in West Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the number of deaths from the Ebola outbreak in four West African nations has climbed to 1,229.
The UN health agency said on Tuesday that death toll jumped between August 14 and 16, the period which registered 113 new cases.
Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders says the Ebola epidemic is moving faster than authorities can...
Ebola epidemic to take six months to control: MSF
Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) medical workers disinfect the body bag of an Ebola victim at the MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on August 14, 2014.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders says the Ebola epidemic is moving faster than authorities can handle and it could take six months to bring under control.
“It is…moving faster than we can respond to,”...
Ebola Apocalypse “Mysteries” Raises Biowarfare Fears
A bleak report issued today by the Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) for the Ministry of Defense (MoD) on the ever growing Ebola virus apocalypse currently devastating a number of Western African nations (and so out of control that governments there have revived a disease-fighting tactic not used in nearly a century called the “cordon sanitaire”) is warning today that the “mysterious...
WHO sanctions unproven medicine against Ebola virus
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the use of unproven drugs against deadly and highly contagious Ebola virus in West Africa “ethical” as long as the provision satisfied certain criteria.
“The panelists said ethical criteria must always guide the provision of such intervention,” Assistant Director-General of the WHO Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny told journalists in Geneva,...
Ebola May Have Already Crossed US Border - Border Patrol Secret Report
There’s no doubt Feds are shipping illegals from Ebola-struck countries across U.S. at taxpayer expense.
After Customs and Border Protection reported that its agents caught nearly 1,000 illegals from Ebola-struck countries this year, meaning many more have not been apprehended, the question remains whether President Barack Obama will secure the border and stop shipping illegals across the U.S....
Ebola outbreak kills 603 in West Africa
Health workers putting on protective gear at the isolation ward of the Donka Hospital in Conakry, Guinea on June 28, 2014.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to 603.
The UN health agency said on Tuesday that officials recorded 85 new cases, including 68 fatal, from July 8-12.
Some 52 fatalities were reported in Sierra Leone, 13 in...
Ebola out of control: Doctors Without Borders
Members of Doctors without Borders carry the body of a person killed at a center for victims of the Ebola virus in Guinea.
Doctors Without Borders has said the Ebola outbreak in West African nations is “totally out of control,” calling for more help in dealing with the disease.
Bart Janssens, the director of operations for the group, said on Friday that international bodies and governments...