Gates Foundations commits $50 million to Ebola virus outbreak A $50 million contribution to support an emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was announced Wednesday by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Associated Press reported.
The country will enact a three-day lockdown to assess who is infected and prevent the spread of the disease, despite protests from international health organizations.
Economic effect of Ebola virus increasingly apparent in affected countries The economic effect of the Ebola virus is starting to be seen as crops rot in the fields, mines are abandoned and goods cannot get to market, AFP reports.
First British health worker infected by Ebola virus while working Sierra Leone The first British national infected by the Ebola virus was flown to the U.
The Ivory Coast is the latest to place restrictions against Ebola-stricken neighbors Liberia and Guinea despite the World Health Organization's advice not to do so.
According to a new report by the World Health Organization, the death toll continues to rise in West Africa as the Ebola epidemic moves through the three nations at the center of the pandemic to neighboring nations. The report also highlights the possible existence of "shadow zones."
A patient admitted themselves to a hospital after minor symptoms related to the virus appeared. Docs say more people being aware of the virus means more people are cautious about any symptoms.
Patient Zero in the latest Ebola outbreak in western Africa is reported to be a 2-year-old boy who died last December in Guinea in a village that borders Sierra Leone and Liberia.
a vaccine and a treatment drug are in the works to help with the ebola outbreak. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved streamlining the testing of a vaccine to help control the strain of the Ebola virus outbreak in western African countries.
A Texas doctor contracted the virus while treating patients in Liberia, and is under observation. The virus has killed more than 600 so far and the survival rate is 10 percent.
Ebola has surfaced in the Nigerian capital of Lagos putting 21 million people at risk. As the deadly virus continues to advance through West Africa, many in one stricken nation have begun to protest, not because of their country's handling of the epidemic, but because of a rumor.
The WHO released numbers showing a continued increase in deaths and cases of the Ebola virus, and the numbers will only grow as locals shun treatment and block health workers from helping. In addition, the bodies have to be guarded from family who want to take them for burial, which would increase the risk of exposure and contracting the virus.
