Tag: Ebola
DR Congo urges calm after Ebola case in key city
KINSHASA: Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo have appealed for calm after a preacher fell ill with Ebola in the eastern city of Goma,...
10 dead in Ebola flare up in eastern DR Congo
BENI: Ten people have died in an outbreak of Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a toll issued Friday that said...
Ebola survivors sue Sierra Leone govt over missing millions
FREE TOWN: Two Ebola survivors are to sue the government of Sierra Leone in the first international court case intended to throw light on what happened to...
Ebola vaccine may be ‘up to 100% effective’: WHO
A prototype vaccine for Ebola may be “up to 100 percent effective” in protecting against the deadly virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said...
WHO declares world’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak over as Liberia gets all...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced Thursday that the Ebola epidemic that has ravaged west Africa for two years was over after Liberia, the...
Second patient in Scotland being tested for Ebola
A second health worker is being tested for Ebola in Scotland after returning from West Africa, a day after another was diagnosed with the...
Time names Ebola fighters as ‘person’ of 2014
Time magazine on Wednesday named as its “Person of the Year 2014” the medics treating the Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 6,300...
No check on Ebola at country’s sea shores
Sources say health officials are issuing clearance certificates to various ships at Karachi Port and Port Qasim without inspection
The country’s seaports appear to be...
First suspected Ebola case emerges in Pakistan
Zulfiqar Ahmad, 40, who resides in Chiniot, returned to Pakistan on November 16 after working for the Togolese Republic in West Africa.
US judge says nurse can leave home in Ebola row
A US judge has ruled that a nurse quarantined by her home state after treating Ebola patients could leave home and frequent public places,...
China to send elite army unit to help fight Ebola in...
China will dispatch an elite unit from the People’s Liberation Army to help Ebola-hit Liberia, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday, responding to UN...
China ‘vulnerable’ to Ebola outbreak
China is “vulnerable” to the deadly Ebola outbreak due to the soaring number of Chinese working in Africa and poor infection control at home,...
WHO eyes mass Ebola vaccines by mid-2015
Hundreds of thousands of Ebola vaccine doses could be rolled out to West Africa by mid-2015, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday,...
New York confirms first Ebola case
New York confirmed the first case of Ebola in the largest city in the United States as the EU dramatically ramped up aid Friday...
Ebola still of ‘great concern’ in West Africa epicentre: WHO
A Liberian health worker holds a baby infected with the Ebola virus at the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) Ebola treatment center in Monrovia on October 18
President won’t have Ebola has its say
President Mamnoon Hussain has written letters to provincial governments and governments of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) urging them to take...
Nigeria declared Ebola-free, holds lessons for others
This year's outbreak of the highly infectious hemorrhagic fever thought to have originated in forest bats is the worst on record
