Deep in the forests of southern Guinea, the first victims fell ill with high fevers. People assumed it was the perennial killer malaria and had no reason to fear touching the bodies, as is the custom in traditional funerals. Some desperate relatives brought their ...
A regional center is being set up in Guinea to coordinate the response to the world’s worst outbreak of Ebola, which has killed hundreds of people in West Africa, the World Health Organization said Friday. The hemorrhagic fever sweeping through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra ...
The United Nations health agency said on Thursday it expects the worst Ebola outbreak in history to continue its deadly rampage through West Africa for at least “several months.” The highly contagious tropical bug has infected hundreds of people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra ...
The number of deaths attributed to an epidemic of Ebola virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone stood at 467 by Monday, out of 759 known cases in total, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. The outbreak of the deadly disease is already the ...
Sierra Leone warned Friday that it is a serious crime to shelter someone infected with the Ebola virus. The statement from the Health Ministry also lamented the fact that a number of patients had discharged themselves from hospital in the Kenema district, where the ...
Several west African countries geared up on Friday to tackle killer hemorraghic fevers including Ebola, which has claimed more than 80 lives in Guinea and is suspected of having emerged in Mali, after Liberia and Sierra Leone. The health minister in Mali, one of ...
Liberia has confirmed two cases of the deadly Ebola virus that is suspected to have killed at least 78 people in neighboring Guinea, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO said in a statement released Sunday the cases were among seven samples tested ...
Guinea on Saturday raced to contain a deadly Ebola epidemic spreading from its southern forests to the capital, Conakry, as neighboring Senegal closed its border. The European Union pledged €500,000 ($690,000) to fight the contagion, while Senegal’s Interior Ministry said border crossings to Guinea ...
Health officials in the West African nation of Guinea say they’re now treating eight cases of Ebola in the capital. Dr. Sakoba Keita, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, announced on national television the virus had reached the city of 3 million. Keita said ...
A traveler who returned to Canada from Liberia with symptoms that initially triggered fears of the spread of the deadly Ebola virus was pronounced clear of the disease Tuesday. “I can confirm to you that the test was negative,” said Michael Bolkenius, spokesman for ...
Health officials in Guinea battled to contain West Africa’s first outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus as neighboring Liberia reported its first suspected victims and a traveler returning to Canada was hospitalized with suspicious symptoms. At least 59 people are known to have died ...
Volunteers continued the grim task of collecting bodies from the streets in southern Guinea on Thursday after ethnic clashes that left dozens burned alive or hacked to death with machetes. More than 50 bodies have been identified after violence broke out in the southern ...
