Trust between health employees and government officials in Liberia has diminished to such a low degree that an attempt to pay Ebola health volunteers for their services in October resulted in violence, as government officials requests that workers both form
Liberia reports a decrease in Ebola cases, but there is one town near the Sierra Leone border that is still fighting the disease. Jene-Wonde is a small town with 300 people, but is the new epicenter of Ebola in the
JENE-WONDE, Liberia (AP) — A schoolteacher brought his sick daughter from Liberia’s capital to this small town of 300 people. Soon he was dead along with his entire family, and they are now buried in the forest nearby along with
A new report indicates Sierra Leoneans quarantined due to Ebola have been eating rotten rice. At the same time, a new epicenter for Ebola contractions in Liberia has emerged in the small Grand Cape Mount County town of Jene-Wonde. According to
The deadliest Ebola outbreak ever is finally slowing in Liberia, the worst-hit country, but still wreaking havoc in two neighbouring west African states amid warnings of thousands of unreported deaths. As the initially lacklustre global response to the crisis centred
A man found a dead newborn girl at a scrapyard in the ELWA Junction in Monrovia, Liberia, umbilical cord still attached. It is unknown if the baby died at the yard or if the girl was already dead. Residents said this
LONDON (AP) — As the biggest-ever outbreak of Ebola continues to ravage West Africa, here are a few key numbers to get a handle on the epidemic: 13,042 and 4,818: According to an update this week from the World Health
DAKAR (Reuters) – The number of Ebola cases is surging in Sierra Leone as the country suffers from a lack of treatment centers, while lack of food and basic goods is forcing some people to leave quarantine areas, the United
The head of Liberia’s Environmental Protection Agency stated this week that the EPA has “nothing to do” with disposing of hundreds of bodies of Ebola victims as communities near the Boys Town crematorium protest that officials have provided little to
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Thousands of people in Sierra Leone are being forced to violate Ebola quarantines to find food because deliveries are not reaching them, aid agencies said. Large swaths of the West African country have been sealed off
ANQUI, China (AP) — Far from the Ebola hot zone, the sewing and gluing machines at a factory in China have been whirring more than usual to produce crucial yellow suits that protect the front-line medics more than 11,000 kilometers
Australia is contracting a private medical firm to operate and staff an Ebola hospital in Sierra Leone, Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced. Various news outlets reported that on Nov. 5 Abbott said Australia would contribute $17 million to fund
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A group of aid agencies says that thousands of people in Sierra Leone are being forced to violate Ebola quarantines to find food because deliveries are not reaching them. In order to prevent the spread of
FREETOWN (Reuters) – A Sierra Leone doctor died on Monday from Ebola, making him the fifth local doctor in the West African state to have succumbed to the hemorrhagic fever that has taken a heavy toll on the country’s medical
The Ebola virus outbreak’s toll in West Africa has expanded at such a grand scale that the devastation has begun to vary from country to country. Liberia has experienced some reduction in the acceleration of cases, but Sierra Leone’s condition
TORONTO, Oct. 31 (UPI) — Canada has effectively closed its borders to Africans from the three nations grappling with Ebola by refusing to issue visas allowing them to enter the nation. It will no longer offer visas for foreign nationals
In a striking case of perseverance that may be among the youngest instances of Ebola survival in the history of the disease, a two-week-old baby near Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, was declared Ebola-free after enduring the ravages of the illness
“I’m not celebrating because there is nothing to celebrate,” Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says. She and her nation observed her 76th birthday quietly, given the current Ebola crisis in the nation. As gifts, several groups presented the President with
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — 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 African health workers have remained
Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday that New York State and New York City will create a program to encourage health care professionals to travel to West Africa to treat Ebola patients. According to a
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s leader of nearly three decades declared a state of emergency Thursday, hours after protesters who oppose his bid for another term stormed the parliament and set part of it on fire, marking the
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Kaci Hickox, the nurse who returned from Africa after working with Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone to treat Ebola victims, blustered that Maine had better rescind her quarantine by Thursday or she will sue. Hickox, 33, told NBC’s Today,
AUSTIN, Texas — Early Wednesday morning, a nurse who had been treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone returned to her home in Texas. The nurse, whose name is being withheld for privacy reasons, showed no signs of the disease, but
Sierra Leone’s Ebola cases are showing no sign of slowing down, no thanks to significant negligence by some working to clear Ebola-stricken areas. The Member of Parliament representing eastern Kailahun, Mustapha Braima, told Parliament that ambulance drivers in the region
