Africa's Ebola outbreak 'out of control', warns MSF
20 June 2014 Last updated at 22:38 BST The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has said the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia is totally out of control. Ebola was first reported around...
View ArticleEbola: BBC News special programme
13 October 2014 Last updated at 19:02 BST BBC News presents a daily round-up of the main issues relating to the Ebola outbreak. Up to 8 October, 4,033 people had been reported as having died from the...
View ArticleWest Africa on Ebola virus high alert
25 March 2014 Last updated at 20:03 GMT Sierra Leone has become the latest country to be put on alert over a potential outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. Cases of the disease, which kills up to 90% of...
View ArticleEbola orphans 'have nobody to depend on'
15 October 2014 Last updated at 22:49 BST Dauda, from Sierra Leone, survived the Ebola virus, but his father died and now he says he has nobody to depend on. The 24-year-old has four younger brothers...
View ArticlePM on Ebola: 'We will do everything we can to keep this country safe'
15 October 2014 Last updated at 13:27 BST David Cameron has pledged that the government will do everything it can to keep the UK safe from Ebola. Responding to a question by Nigel Dodds MP during PMQs,...
View ArticleCan US 'secret serum' stop Ebola outbreak?
9 August 2014 Last updated at 01:55 BST On Friday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the West African outbreak of Ebola an "international emergency". In the US, two Americans who contracted...
View ArticleJFK airport screening for Ebola: 'We can't get the risk to zero'
11 October 2014 Last updated at 16:20 BST New York's JFK airport has started a health screening programme to try and stem the Ebola outbreak. Passengers arriving from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea...
View ArticleHow Ebola samples are processed in laboratory
15 October 2014 Last updated at 21:23 BST Government scientists from Wiltshire are calling for micro-biologists to volunteer in the fight against the growing threat of the deadly Ebola virus. Public...
View ArticleEmergency World Health Organization summit on Ebola in Geneva
6 August 2014 Last updated at 06:50 BST The World Health Organization is beginning a two day emergency meeting to discuss new measures to tackle the Ebola virus. The disease, for which there is no...
View ArticleEbola: World Health Organisation statement expected
8 August 2014 Last updated at 06:28 BST On Friday, the World Health Organisation is expected to announce new measures to combat the Ebola virus, which has now claimed over 900 lives in West Africa....
View ArticleEbola outbreak 'presents challenges'
31 July 2014 Last updated at 01:19 BST The number of people killed by the virus in West Africa has now reached 672, according to new UN figures. The US humanitarian organisation Peace Corps said it was...
View ArticleEbola virus claims another victim in Nigeria
13 August 2014 Last updated at 14:14 BST The deadly virus Ebola has claimed a third victim in Nigeria, taking the overall death toll to over 1,000 people since it was first reported in March 2014. It...
View ArticleEbola: BBC News daily round-up programme - 13 October
13 October 2014 Last updated at 20:33 BST BBC News presents a daily round-up of the main issues relating to the Ebola outbreak. Up to 8 October, 4,033 people had been reported as having died from the...
View ArticleEbola 'could wreck W Africa economies,' warns World Bank
17 September 2014 Last updated at 22:01 BST The Ebola outbreak could have a catastrophic impact on the economies of West Africa, the World Bank says. Ebola has killed 2,461 people in West Africa - the...
View ArticleEbola crisis: Tony Blair says world 'too slow to respond'
11 November 2014 Last updated at 18:30 GMT The world has been "too slow" in responding to the Ebola crisis in west Africa, Tony Blair has said. The former UK prime minister, who is in Sierra Leone...
View ArticleEbola virus: The challenge of tackling the virus
30 July 2014 Last updated at 23:50 BST Scientists have been aware of Ebola virus since the mid-1970s, but so far no vaccine or cure has been developed. Ebola kills up to 90% of those infected, but...
View ArticleEbola outbreak: How life in Conakry, Guinea has changed
10 November 2014 Last updated at 23:51 GMT Blood samples gathered from Ebola patients in Guinea will be examined this week by specialists, in the hope of tracing the origin of the current outbreak....
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