The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could reach 5,000 to 10,000 cases per week by the first week of December.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday it's creating an Ebola response team that is able to reach any U.S. hospital with a confirmed Ebola patient "within hours."
A top UN official on Tuesday said that "we cannot let Ebola win," urging more swift and unified actions as "time is our biggest enemy" in the fight to prevent the spread of Ebola virus, which has already claimed more than 4,000 lives since early this year.
U.S. authorities on Tuesday have broadened the pool of health care workers getting monitored for Ebola at a hospital in the city of Dallas in northeastern Texas after one of them tested positive for the deadly disease.
Teresa Herrera, the Spanish nursing auxiliary infected with the Ebola virus remains in a "critical but stable" condition in the Carlos III Hospital in Madrid.
A Queensland nurse has tested negative for the Ebola virus after returning from treating patients in west Africa where the disease is rife.
Teresa Romero, the Spanish nurse who has been infected with the Ebola virus could have become infected after accidentally brushing her face with a glove as she was taking off her isolation suit.
Kenya's medics on Wednesday decried the government's level of preparedness to deal with the deadly Ebola virus which has killed more than 3,000 people in West Africa.
Brazilian Health Minister Arthur Chioro announced Wednesday that the country will take stronger measures to prevent an outbreak of Ebola.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged 1,500 state health chiefs across the country to do their part to prevent the spread of Ebola, calling them "partners in this fight" against the deadly disease.
Travelers from Ebola-affected countries will face enhanced screening at five major U.S. airports, the U.S. government announced Wednesday, hours after a Liberian man, the first person diagnosed with the deadly virus on American soil, died at a Dallas hospital.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday confirmed a Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola virus disease.
France is able to treat any eventual cases of the deadly Ebola virus in its territory, French President Francois Hollande said Monday, urging more efforts to seek for an efficient vaccine.
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported that more than 7,000 people have been diagnosed with infection of the Ebola virus in West Africa, a UN spokesperson said here Thursday.
The head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) on Monday arrived in Accra, capital of Ghana, for the official opening of the mission's headquarters there, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Monday.
Botswana on Monday said that the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa is a public health catastrophe and "a serious setback to the achievement" of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), calling on the international community to do its best to save the West African region from this crisis.
Cuba will send a total of 461 doctors and nurses to West Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic, local media reported Friday.
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