ebola

Reading Time: < 1 minute  Arlette Basekawike, a volunteer for the United Nations food agency in Bunia, the heart of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, spends most of her time in…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThree new vaccines are in development for the rare strain of Ebola virus currently devastating Central Africa – as scientists rush to stop…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEbola may have been spreading unchecked in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since January, with local authorities tracing the current outbreak…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo suspected cases of Ebola in Brazil have been cleared after both patients tested negative for the virus, local health authorities have…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn a hot afternoon in a hospital in the town of Bundibugyo, health workers were being trained to fight Ebola. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe head of the World Health Organisation arrived in Bunia, eastern Congo, on Saturday — a city at the centre of a…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe U.S. is discussing with Kenya opening a facility there to quarantine American citizens who become exposed to the ​Ebola outbreak centered…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA health alert has been issued in Italy’s northern Lombardy region after two suspected cases of Ebola were detected in the province of Como. …

Reading Time: < 1 minutePolice in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo fired shots in the air after angry crowds attempted to reclaim the…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteArson attacks on Ebola treatment centres in eastern Congo have starkly illuminated the profound and complex challenges facing authorities as they battle a global…