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Liberia pleads with health workers to come to work amid dispute over Ebola pay
By Jonathan Paye-Layleh MONROVIA, Liberia – Liberian officials are pleading with nurses and physician assistants to show up to work Monday amid a dispute over hazard pay that has prompted calls for a...
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Marsden: U.S. studies possible Ebola mutation for cause of nurses’ infection
WASHINGTON — Medical experts say they still don’t know why two nurses treating an Ebola victim in Texas contracted the disease, but they say they don’t believe the virus has mutated in such a way that...
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Psychologists help all struggle with the burden of being in the Ebola zone
By Helen Branswell THE CANADIAN PRESS Finding a livable balance between despair and hope can be a daily, even hourly struggle for health-care workers in West African’s Ebola crisis. In a world where...
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WHO badly fumbled response to Ebola: UN report
By Maria Cheng LONDON – In a draft document, the World Health Organization has acknowledged that it botched attempts to stop the now-spiraling Ebola outbreak in West Africa, blaming factors including...
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Emergency food deliveries in Sierra Leone to fight Ebola epidemic
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – The U.N.’s World Food Program on Saturday delivered emergency food rations to 265,000 people, many of them quarantined in Sierra Leone, to help fight the spread of Ebola. Food...
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Risk Ebola will reach Canada increases the longer the outbreak persists: Study
Every month, three people infected with Ebola are likely to board a plane out of West Africa and take the lethal virus somewhere else in the world, according to a new Canadian-led study. The analysis,...
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Testing of Canadian Ebola vaccine moving as fast as possible: NewLink CEO
By Helen Branswell THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO – The CEO of the company that holds the licence for a Canadian-made Ebola vaccine has a message for people who are frustrated by how long it is taking to...
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World Health Organization: Number of people believed to have Ebola has risen...
DAKAR, Senegal – More than 10,000 people have been infected with Ebola, according to figures released Saturday by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread. Of those cases,...
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US: Ambassador Power to visit 3 Ebola-ravaged countries in West Africa
By Cara Anna The United States ambassador to the United Nations is on her way to visit all three of the West African countries hit hardest by the Ebola outbreak, amid rising calls for travel...
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Canadians from west Africa face stigma here while they fear for family back home
By Chinta Puxley WINNIPEG – The Ebola virus may not have crossed Canada’s border, but the epidemic sweeping parts of west Africa is taking a toll on many Canadians. Those with parents, brothers,...
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International community ramps ups efforts to contain Ebola crisis in West Africa
ACCRA, Ghana – German Capt. Mattias Reichenbach has loaded protective gear, soap and other cargo onto his plane and is ready to take off from the United Nations’ main staging area in Ghana during a...
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Africans offer little support in battle against Ebola
JOHANNESBURG — The head of Africa’s continental body did not get to an Ebola-hit country until last week — months after alarm bells first rang and nearly 5,000 deaths later. Pledges to deploy 2,000...
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Canadian health workers hear from doctor with first-hand Ebola experience
They have been staging drills and dry runs preparing for the remote chance an Ebola-infected patient lands in their hospitals. And on Friday, the nation’s critical care specialists learned first hand...
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At 1-month mark, US Ebola screening program for travellers finding...
By Mike Stobbe THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — For three weeks, Dr. John Fankhauser and his family lived in two RVs in a meadow in North Carolina, watching movies, playing cards and huddling around a...
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Ebola vaccine safe in first 20 people studied, triggers promising immune...
By Lauran Neergaard THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — An experimental Ebola vaccine appears safe and triggered signs of immune protection in the first 20 volunteers to test it, U.S. researchers...
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This week in health: Ebola’s economic toll, edible insects, and more
Canada.com Health takes a look at a few stories you may have missed this week. UN report highlights economic impact of Ebola crisis The Ebola crisis that has swept across several west African countries...
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WHO will miss Ebola targets, had set Dec 1 to isolate 70 per cent of patients
By Maria Cheng THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Two months ago, the World Health Organization launched an ambitious plan to stop the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa, aiming to isolate 70 per cent of...
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2014: Photos and images that caught the world’s attention
The year’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world. Take a look through, and let us know which you think are the...
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First trials of Ebola vaccines suggest they are safe; next phase next month: WHO
By Helen Branswell THE CANADIAN PRESS The first clinical trial designed to see if two experimental Ebola vaccines actually work may begin in late January and two others are slated to start in February...
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Officials see potential tide turn in fight against Ebola, though not before...
By Krista Larson And Maria Cheng DAKAR, Senegal — A top U.N. official in the fight against Ebola greeted just three patients at one treatment centre he visited this week in Sierra Leone. Families in...
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Ebola spread hits air links
By Chris Jasper and Andres R. Martinez Africa’s air routes are increasingly at risk as the Ebola virus prompts local carriers to avoid the worst-affected areas, demand weakens and Korean Air Lines Co....
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Limit Ebola drugs to best candidates: WHO
By Helen Branswell TORONTO — The World Health Organization is trying to dampen runaway enthusiasm in some quarters for trying a number of untested compounds to treat Ebola in West Africa. The global...
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Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,200: WHO
GENEVA — The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 1,200 people since it began in December 2013, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. More than 2,200 have been sickened, according...
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US Ebola survivor asks for prayers, aid for African countries fighting outbreak
By Kathleen Foody THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — As one of few Ebola survivors with medical expertise, Dr. Kent Brantly seems keenly aware of the position his painful experience has put him in. He...
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New Sierra Leone law makes it illegal to hide Ebola patients
Clarence Roy-MacAulay FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone voted to pass a new amendment to its health act, imposing possible jail time for anyone caught hiding an Ebola patient, a practice the World...
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Montreal patient being tested for Ebola virus after returning from West Africa
MONTREAL — A patient has been placed in isolation at a Montreal hospital after showing symptoms consistent with the often deadly Ebola virus. Dr. Karl Weiss, the director of infectious diseases at...
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Rapid mutations in Ebola virus making it difficult to diagnose, study says
The Ebola virus cutting a swath of death through West Africa is quickly accumulating mutations that could make it more difficult to diagnose in the field, treat or prevent with vaccines, an...
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Liberian Ebola survivor calls for more experimental drug to be sent to Africa
Jonathan Paye-Layleh MONROVIA, Liberia — A Liberian health worker who recovered from Ebola after receiving an experimental drug urged the manufacturer to speed up its production and send it to Africa,...
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Efforts to contain Ebola outbreak hampered by disease’s stigma
The death toll of the West African Ebola outbreak is nearing 2,000 and the scale up required to control the rampaging virus is three to four times what’s currently in place, United Nations officials...
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Ebola cases could grow by thousands per week if current spread continues: WHO
By Helen Branswell THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Ebola outbreak could increase at a rate of thousands of new cases per week by early October, World Health Organization figures suggest. An...
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Canadian Ebola mobile laboratory team heads back to Sierra Leone
By Helen Branswell TORONTO — Canada is sending its mobile Ebola laboratory back into action in Sierra Leone. The Public Health Agency of Canada said that the team had left Saturday to resume running a...
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Facing Ebola for first time, doctor learns to use crucial safety gear, then...
By Lauran Neergaard THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — He’s travelled to the sites of worrisome outbreaks of SARS, bird flu, MERS. But the Ebola outbreak that’s spiraled out of control in West Africa...
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Fourth doctor dies of Ebola in Sierra Leone after failed bid to evacuate her...
By Clarence Roy-MacAulay FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone has lost a fourth doctor to Ebola after a failed effort to transfer her abroad for medical treatment, a government official said Sunday, a...
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Obama to visit CDC to discuss Ebola
By Lauran Neergaard THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The American strategy on Ebola is two-pronged: Step up desperately needed aid to West Africa and, in an unusual step, train U.S. doctors and nurses...
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WHO predicts almost 21,000 Ebola cases by November if no changes in outbreak...
By Maria Cheng THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — New estimates from the World Health Organization warn the number of Ebola cases could hit 21,000 in six weeks unless efforts to curb the outbreak are ramped...
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Ebola could infect 1.4 million in West Africa by February: Centre for Disease...
The number of Ebola cases in West Africa could reach 1.4 million by the end of January if trends continue without an immediate and massive scale-up in response, according to a new estimate by the...
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Ebola could infect at least 1.4 million before it’s over: CDC
By Mike Stobbe And Maria Cheng THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — U.S. health officials Tuesday laid out worst-case and best-case scenarios for the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, warning that the number...
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Canada to contribute another $30 million to Ebola battle
NEW YORK — Canada will give another $30 million to the fight against the Ebola virus, which is ravaging West African countries and threatens to spread globally. In announcing the new funds Thursday at...
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Liberia: Chief medical officer places herself under Ebola quarantine after...
MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia’s chief medical officer is placing herself under quarantine for 21 days after her office assistant died of Ebola. Bernice Dahn, a deputy health minister who has represented...
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As world leaders pledge aid, delays mean Ebola clinics must turn sick away
MONROVIA, Liberia — Fourteen-year-old D.J. Mulbah set off at dawn with his mother and grandmother in desperate pursuit of a coveted bed at the Ebola clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Liberia’s...
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Liberia’s chief medical officer places herself under Ebola quarantine
MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia’s chief medical officer is placing herself under quarantine for 21 days after her office assistant died of Ebola. Bernice Dahn, a deputy health minister who has represented...
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American Ebola patient had contact with children
DALLAS — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States told health care workers on his initial hospital visit that he had recently been in an area affected by the deadly disease, but that...
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Dallas on edge as 80 people monitored for Ebola
More than 80 people in Dallas are being monitored for symptoms of Ebola after coming into contact with patient Thomas Eric Duncan or others who Duncan had met, health officials said. The people have...
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Liberia officials to prosecute man who brought Ebola to U.S. for lying on...
MONROVIA, Liberia — The Liberian man infected with Ebola who brought the disease to the United States will be prosecuted when he returns home for lying on his airport screening questionnaire, Liberian...
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Hospital: Dallas Ebola patient in critical condition (with video)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — The condition of the lone Ebola patient to be diagnosed in the U.S. has worsened and is now deemed critical, the Dallas hospital that has been treating him reported...
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Canada to step up border checks for Ebola
By Helen Branswell THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO – Canada will step up border screening to try to prevent an Ebola importation to this country, federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose said Wednesday. “Our...
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Ebola: 41 UN staffers now under observation in Liberia
By Jonathan Paye-Layleh MONROVIA, Liberia – Liberia’s United Nations peacekeeping mission has placed 41 staff members, including 20 military personnel, under “close medical observation” after an...
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Airports start screening passengers for Ebola
By Allyson Versprille John F. Kennedy International Airport began added screening for arriving passengers today to help stem the spread of Ebola, the virus that’s killed more than 4,000 people this...
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U.S. officials step-up Ebola screening at NYC’s Kennedy airport
NEW YORK – U.S. customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York’s Kennedy International Airport from three West African countries on Saturday in a...
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Ebola outbreak still a global emergency despite big drop in cases: WHO
By Maria Cheng LONDON — The World Health Organization says the year-long Ebola outbreak in West Africa still qualifies as an international emergency even though the number of cases has plummeted. Last...
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