THE LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES ON THE EBOLA VIRUS OUTBREAK

Breakthrough in search for ebola vaccine: No patient out of 6,000 given trial drug developed symptoms of the disease after 10 days 

23/12/16 07:55

23/12/16 04:13

A vaccine developed by Merck is the first shown to be highly effective in preventing human infection with Ebola, according to final results from a clinical trial.

26/11/16 01:20

A nurse has been banned from the profession after she risked an Ebola outbreak by hiding fellow volunteer Pauline Cafferkey's high temperature on the flight home from Africa.

14/11/16 23:03

Wood is said to have intentionally mis-recorded Ms Cafferkey's elevated temperature during the 'chaotic' screening process on their return to the UK from Sierra Leone on December 28, 2014.

08/11/16 22:29

An employee in a high-level Canadian laboratory may have been exposed to Ebola on Monday while working with pigs (file photo) who were infected with the virus as part of an experiment.

01/11/16 14:57

The Dept of Commerce says 74m US residents travelled internationally in 2015 - a 9% rise on the previous year. Of those, 33m travelled overseas, with the UK the most popular destination.

01/11/16 09:51

The fully operational specialist team of medics, scientists and academics from the UK are on standby for emergency requests, the Department of Health have announced.

25/10/16 12:11

Nina Pham was diagnosed with the deadly virus in 2014 along, with co-worker Amber Vinson, after treating Thomas Eric Duncan at a Dallas medical center.

18/08/16 18:55

Pauline Cafferkey faces being struck off after allegations she hid details about her temperature from medical staff in Heathrow when she returned from working in Sierra Leone.

08/06/16 09:39

Police and firefighters descended on the Los Angeles home near the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Monday after a woman who had recently returned from Africa fell ill.

24/05/16 17:58

An auditors’ report revealed the West African country failed to account for the huge sum. Taxpayers have contributed more than £427 million to fighting the epidemic.

20/05/16 18:40

At a time when most couples in their seventies are taking life easy, Ramatu and Alusine are having to bring up 18 of their grandchildren after Ebola wiped out their family in Sierra Leone

18/05/16 04:29

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust and Cambridge University identified cases where the deadly virus was passed from mother to child via breast milk, and a survivor who passed the virus sexually a month after recovering.

11/04/16 12:54

Press Secretary Josh Earnest blamed Congress for a failure to provide adequate resources to the growing Zika threat, spread by the edes aegypti mosquito (pictured).

29/03/16 14:13

The Granite Shoals post encouraged police to come to the station so the drugs could be screened with a 'special device'. Chastity Hopson has been charged with drug possession.

18/03/16 22:58

The cases were found in Koropara, about 600 miles south east of Guinea's capital, Conakry, and health authorities believe there are three other probable causes.

28/02/16 22:53

The 40-year-old was originally infected with the killer disease while working in Sierra Leone in December 2014, and she was flown from Glasgow to the London hospital on February 23.

27/02/16 03:00

A majority of Ebola survivors suffer some form of long-term brain health problems, according to a new study by US researchers who tested 82 Liberians who managed to beat the disease.

23/02/16 20:44

British nurse Pauline Cafferkey has been transported by an RAF Hercules to London having been admitted to hospital for a third time since contracting Ebola.

08/02/16 20:26

Speaking at the White House on Monday, Obama pointedly explained that the mosquito-spread infection linked to babies being born with abnormally small heads is not life-threatening.

07/02/16 03:25

Nigeria is facing a growing outbreak of a deadly virus similar to Ebola which has already killed 101 people since August.

21/01/16 15:14

The aunt of the 22-year-old student who died of ebola on January 12 has been diagnosed with the diseased and has been named as the seonc confirmed case in Sierra Leone.

15/01/16 21:10

Health officials in Sierra Leone confirmed a woman has died from a Ebola despite the country being declared free of the disease since November 7 and hours after west Africa was cleared.

23/11/15 09:28

Thousands of people needlessly died because the global response to the ebola crisis was ‘late, feeble and uncoordinated’, a damning report concludes today.

31/10/15 14:56

Scientists at the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Salisbury are using the spider webs to test how long deadly viruses and bacteria can survive.

27/10/15 18:05

Hammersmith Medical Research is holding clinical trials, starting in November, for a study of an Ebola vaccine. It will involve up to 12 short outpatient appointments, over a year, the ad says.

21/10/15 22:04

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey will remain at the Royal Free Hospital in London for some time, doctors said. Dr Michael Jacobs, treating her, said he was 'thrilled' by the 39-year-old's progress.

19/10/15 18:39

Ms Cafferkey, 39, from South Lanarkshire, was admitted to the isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north west London more than a week ago after becoming unwell in Glasgow.

15/10/15 20:21

The first long-term study of its kind, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, adds to growing evidence that Ebola can linger in the body, causing health problems for months or even years.

13/10/15 00:16

A total of 58 people who have been in close contact with British nurse Pauline Cafferkey are being monitored by health officials after the 39-year-old was diagnosed with Ebola for the second time.

12/10/15 01:47

The sister of Pauline Cafferkey, 39, said doctors 'missed a big opportunity' to spot that the nurse had symptoms of Ebola for a second time after initially diagnosing her with a virus and sending her home.

10/10/15 13:32

Parents of pupils at Mossneuk Primary in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, reacted with horror after news of Pauline Cafferkey’s condition was revealed days after she visited the school.

24/09/15 12:19

Olivia Hallisey, 16, from Greenwich, Connecticut, won a $50,000 scholarship for inventing a super-fast, super-cheap way to detect Ebola - a method that may very well save hundreds of lives.

10/09/15 09:26

The World Health Organisation (WHO) had hoped for an end to the deadly outbreak by the end of the year but isolated flare-ups continue in areas beleaguered by the disease.

29/07/15 14:51

Olive oil prices have shot up ten per cent in a year after disease and droughts wrecked crops in Italy and Spain. Poor harvests have led to warnings from industry officials of a shortfall in supplies.

08/07/15 17:49

A New Jersey man who was displaying Ebola-like symptoms after returning from a trip to West Africa has tested positive for Malaria. Someone called 911 when he threw up in a Wawa store.

07/07/15 16:38

An independent review has called for sweeping changes at the UN agency, warning 'the world simply cannot afford another period of inaction until the next health crisis'.

30/06/15 12:58

Liberia's deputy health minister Tolbert Nyenswah confirmed a 17-year-old boy from Margibi, a rural area close to the country's capital of Monrovia, died from the virus, marking the first death for 42 days.

26/06/15 08:19

The device, which requires just a pinprick of blood, can be used at the bedside of patients and is as accurate as traditional lab tests that can take days, The Lancet reports.

19/06/15 14:19

North Korean scientists claimed their new wonder-drug Kumdang-2 is able to cure a wide range of ailments after it is injected following an announcement by the state's official news agency.

18/06/15 12:05

The comments were made by University of Michigan professor, Powel Kazanji, who says the symptoms displayed during the Plague of Athens were similar to that caused by Ebola.

16/06/15 19:54

Nancy Writebol (pictured in 2013) and her husband David are expected to land in Liberia on Tuesday for a five-year term with Christian group Serving in Mission.

15/06/15 10:04

Milford school officials barred Ikeoluwa Opayemi, 7, from coming to school last October after she returned from a 10-day trip to Nigeria, where she had attended a wedding with her family.

15/06/15 07:54

There is nothing more calculated to make you feel unpopular than turning up at an international conference in New York only to find everyone cancelling their appointments with you.

11/06/15 09:24

Ebola survivor Dr Ian Crozier was declared free of Ebola in his blood after getting contracting virus treating patients in West Africa, but two months later the virus was found in his eye fluid.

08/06/15 22:46

Corporal Anna Cross, 25, from Cambridge, contracted Ebola when volunteering as a nurse in Sierra Leone. She joined the Countess of Wessex for tea at Buckingham Palace today.

08/06/15 08:04

The Prime Minister will tell the G7 summit in Germany that Britain will 'lead the way' in the fight against global disease, with a squad on permanent standby to fly anywhere in the world within 48 hours.

27/05/15 10:30

Experts at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York found the virus can only invade host cells by attaching itself to a specific protein. If it loses access to the protein it cannot infect and kill its victims.

26/05/15 15:06

Health officials are trying to track down medics who treated the man and passengers on his flight from Morocco to JFK Airport, after he died of Lassa fever, an infection similar to Ebola.

20/05/15 08:42

Orphans who survived Ebola in Sierra Leone are starving to death amid harvest shortages and some are being forced into the sex industry to pay for food.

13/05/15 23:44

New Australian laws which passed in Parliament at Canberra on Wednesday, enable health department officials to force anyone with symptoms of a listed disease to isolate themselves or face arrest.

11/05/15 23:35

The festivities in the capital Monrovia come after the World Health Organization announced the west African country was free of the deadly disease, prompting the government to declare a public holiday.

09/05/15 20:51

The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said Liberia was free from Ebola after 42 days without a new case but urged vigilance until the the virus was extinguished in neighbouring nations.

08/05/15 16:19

Dr Ian Crozier was declared Ebola free after being treated in Emory University Hospital in October 2014. Doctors discovered the virus in his eye two months later, causing vision problems.

03/05/15 12:02

The 44-year-old woman was diagnosed with the killer virus 14 days after having unprotected sex with a male survivor, 46, meaning the virus could survive in semen twice as long as previously thought.

24/04/15 10:56

American John Moore's poignant photographs of the outbreak in Liberia were praised by the judges for illustrating with compassion how people's daily lives were destroyed by the disease.

13/04/15 15:14

Carlton Cole and Nathaniel Clyne were among the Premier League stars to attend a special event to tackle Ebola on Sunday night. The event took place in Knightsbridge in London's West End.

12/04/15 23:49

Pioneering new treatments for flu, ebola and cancer are being developed by scientists using man-made DNA after experts discovered how to create strands that mimic different diseases.

10/04/15 16:54

The female healthcare worker is being treated for the deadly Ebola virus at Canberra Hospital on Friday after working at an Ebola treatment clinic in Liberia.

05/04/15 14:52

Dallas intensive care nurse Nina Pham contracted Ebola while caring for a man visiting Dallas from Liberia, Thomas Eric Duncan, who was the first U.S. patient to die from the disease.

04/04/15 14:13

Doctor John Parker was taken to an isolation room at Westmead Hospital in Sydney's west for treatment about midday on Saturday after he developed symptoms of a influenza-like illness.

02/04/15 20:45

Scientists hope immunisation is possible with just one injection after 'highly promising results' in the first 138 healthy adults who were vaccinated with various doses.

28/03/15 15:01

Corporal Anna Cross, 25, from Cambridge, who was the first person in the world to be treated with the experimental drug MIL 77, credits the humble strawberry with helping save her life.

27/03/15 16:12

President Ernest Koroma urged his people to remain at home until Monday morning to stop any further spread of the killer disease which has so far infected 12,000 of his citizens out of 25,000 cases.

26/03/15 17:39

James Meiring, from Sheffield, helped save a woman and her baby (pictured) at an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone. He travelled to the country last month to fight the spread of the virus.

22/03/15 14:39

Ernest Koroma has ordered the entire population of Sierra Leone into lock down from 6am on March 27 until 6pm on March 29.

22/03/15 13:35

The test created by a Harvard educated scientist is based on new method of 'reading' DNA and backers believe it will transform the battle against the killer disease that has claimed more than 10,000 lives.

19/03/15 17:57

US military's Darpa has developed a method to stop infectious diseases (Ebola shown). It involves encoding RNA and DNA with instructions for antibodies. Testing could begin in two years.

17/03/15 17:28

An RAF C17 was last night dispatched to Sierra Leone to take the female nurse and her fellow medics to the Royal Free Hospital in London, the only place in the UK equipped to handle highly infectious diseases.

16/03/15 22:16

The patient's status was changed from serious to critical condition at the National Institutes of Health near Washington, D.C. The patient was flown in isolation from Sierra Leone last week.

14/03/15 23:12

The transfer comes amid concerns the civilians could have been exposed to an unnamed US health worker who recently tested positive for the disease while volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

14/03/15 23:08

The woman is being cared for at the Royal Free Hospital. She was flown back from Sierra Leone on Thursday. Four military colleagues who came into contact with her were evacuated back to the UK.

13/03/15 19:16

The medic, who has not been identified, was flown back to the UK this morning and is being admitted to the Royal Free Hospital in London after a needle pierced their protective suit.

13/03/15 15:25

The patient was admitted to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland on Friday at 4.44am. The patient's condition was still being evaluated after being flown in isolation.

11/03/15 08:15

Athlete Jimmy Thoronka, who went missing after Glasgow's Commonwealth Games last summer, is now applying for asylum in the UK after he was found sleeping rough on the streets of London.

07/03/15 03:23

Dr. Kent Brantly landed in Marietta, Georgia, just outside Atlanta, on Saturday morning after being evacuated from West Africa, where he contracted the Ebola virus.

03/03/15 14:45

Miss Vinson, 30, a nurse at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, was diagnosed with Ebola days after visiting Coming Attractions Bridal & Formal store in Akron, Ohio in October.

03/03/15 06:56

The pair helped to raise money to fight the deadly disease and assist children orphaned by it.

02/03/15 12:10

Nina Pham, 26, is suing Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, claiming she became the 'symbol of corporate neglect', as senior officials failed to adequately prepare for the crisis.

01/03/15 20:38

Despite his quarantine, Samuel Sam-Sumana is set to become acting president today as President Ernest Bai Koroma travels to Belgium to attend an EU conference on Ebola.

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