"Ebola is raging" in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing more than 200 people a day in the worst outbreak ever of the hemorrhagic fever, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday, adding that health systems were "buckling."
Uganda authorities started the screening of all people entering the country to detect any suspected Ebola patients, a senior official said here on Wednesday.
The outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa is "racing ahead" of efforts to control it and at least 600 million U.S. dollars is needed to get the unprecedented epidemic under control, UN health officials said Wednesday.
The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned Tuesday that the window of opportunity for curbing the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is closing rapidly and called for "an overwhelming response " to bring the unprecedented epidemic under control.
The first British Ebola patient, a 29-year-old male nurse named as William Pooley, has been treated with the experimental drug ZMapp in a London hospital.
Researchers from the U.S. and Canada said Wednesday they have successfully used an experimental drug to save the lives of monkeys with Marburg virus, a deadly virus closely related to Ebola virus that killed over 1,200 in West Africa this year.
Nigeria had been able to control the spread of the Ebola virus in the country, Minister of Health Onyeabuchi Chukwu said on Wednesday.
The 15-member Southern African Development Community said Monday it will not impose travel ban on Ebola hit West African countries, as the international community taking measures against the spread of the deadly virus.
China will provide Sierra Leone with more assistance if necessary to help the West African country fight the Ebola outbreak, Beijing's ambassador here said Sunday.
A 35-year-old Nigerian woman who was traveling from Nigeria to India for cancer treatment has died in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after showing symptoms similar to those of the lethal Ebola virus, Abu Dhabi's health authority said on Sunday, according to UAE's state news agency WAM.
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China is continuing its efforts to help western African countries combat the latest round of Ebola epidemic outbreak, having sent three teams of experts and medical supplies to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in spite of a high risk of infection.
The African Union (AU) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are working closely to address the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus which has killed more than 1, 000 people since earlier this year.
Wiping out bats that are suspected of spreading the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa could have dire ecological and economic consequences, a New Zealand expert in veterinary public health warned Wednesday.
The experimental Ebola drug given to two American aid workers has been sent to a West African country that requested it, and the supply of the drug is now " exhausted," U.S. manufacturer Mapp Biopharmaceutical said Monday.
Media reports that a Burkinabe from Liberia had died of the dreaded Ebola virus at the Bawku Government Hospital in the Upper East Region sparked fears among Ghanaians at the weekend.
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