The eight workers were attacked by villagers after they began spreading disinfectant around the village. The bodies were discovered by the government delegation sent on Thursday.
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.
Doctor is the third American to contract Ebola in Liberia A doctor who contracted Ebola while offering aid in Liberia arrived on Friday at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha to receive treatment for the disease that is ravaging West Africa.
The worst-ever Ebola outbreak continues to spread The West African Ebola outbreak has already infected more than 3,000 people and killed more than 1,500 of them, but the World Health Organization said the virus could infect more than 20,000 people before it's brought under control.
The organizations claims e-cigarettes pose a risk to public health The World Health Organization has urged countries to begin regulating electronic cigarettes, saying that the devices, which are marketed as a benign alternative to cigarettes, are harmful.
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.
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."
Despite the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba, US medics-in-training use the country as a training base, and it is recognized as a highly successful country - and and example for other countries- in its ability to educate and promote prevention.
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.
WHO says drastic action is needed to stop disease that can kill 90 percent of those infected With an unprecedented Ebola epidemic affecting several African countries, the health ministers of 11 African nations on Thursday agreed on a joint strategy to try to stop the spread, CNN reported.
A strain of the disease was found at Sao Paulo airport, no human cases reported Sewage samples collected in March at the Viracopos International Airport in Brazil have shown the presence of the polio virus, the World Health Organization revealed Monday.
The life expectancy rate for people all around the world has increased by an average of six years compared with the rate from 1990, the World Health Organization found in its recent annual report released Thursday.
Although many people in this country think tuberculosis (TB) as a disease of a bygone era and no longer a threat to modern day society they couldn’t be more wrong, the experts say. "World TB Day" is an annual event dedicated to fighting and eradicating this disease both in the U.S. and across the globe.
The World Health Organization confirms it was notified about two case of the mosquito-spread virus chikungunya by island authorities on Dec. 6, the first time transmission of the illness has been confirmed in the Americas.
