Emails obtained by the Associated Press show discussions among the senior administrators of the World Health Organization from as early as June 2014, in which officials refused to yet declare a state of emergency in west Africa over the Ebola outbreak for fear of angering local governments and interfering with the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
Reports surfaced this weekend that eleven U.S. health workers in Sierra Leone are being flown home after being exposed to the deadly Ebola virus, the largest such group repatriated. The news arrives amid a political tempest that has the Vice President of that nation demanding asylum in the United States after being expelled from office while under Ebola quarantine.
The National Institutes of Health says an American healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in a Sierra Leone treatment unit has arrived safely at its hospital in Maryland.
An illegal immigrant worked at the House of Commons for two months before security staff noticed that she had simply glued a photo of herself onto a fake Swedish passport. But she has been handed a suspended sentence in court
Samuel Sam-Sumana, the vice president of Sierra Leone, has imposed an Ebola quarantine on himself following the death of his bodyguard upon contracting the lethal virus.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that, after a brief period of decreased cases, health officials are witnessing an increase in the number of Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone as people resume traditional–and dangerous–burial rituals.
As the number of cases of Ebola begin to rise for the first time in 2015, a new audit has uncovered more than $3 million in funding to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone is wholly unaccounted for. The government has vowed a prompt investigation as it begins to quarantine previously untouched neighborhoods in the capital, Freetown.
Millions of dollars intended to combat Ebola in Sierra Leone have gone missing, according to a national auditor report. Over $3.3 million lack paperwork needed to track where the internal emergency funds are or went. Sierra Leone, which has had
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported Ebola cases in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea rose last week for the first time in several weeks.
World Health Organization (WHO) statistics show a significant drop in cases of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, and even beleaguered Sierra Leone, indicating a potential–though not guaranteed–end of an outbreak that has taken thousands of lives and affected millions.
EMBO Molecular Medicine released a study that claims insectivorous free-tailed bats sparked the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
The United Kingdom confirmed its first positive Ebola case in Scotland.
Nearly nine months, 6,915 deaths, and 18,603 cases later, the United Nations is ready to take some action on the Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced a tour of the stricken West African countries—Sierra Leone, Liberia, and
UK International Development Secretary Justine Greening told Reuters Britain’s efforts to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone will see “rapid progress” in the next 4-6 weeks. Follow Breitbart London on Twitter @BreitbartLondon
The government of Sierra Leone has canceled public Christmas and New Year celebrations due to the Ebola outbreak. The government stationed soldiers on streets to make sure people obey the ruling. “We should stop all traditional practices for now so
The 12-day UN climate change summit in Peru has generated more carbon dioxide than an entire African country. The talks, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, generated more than 50,000 tonnes of CO2, as more than 12,500 politicians, green
“Piles of bodies, overwhelmed medical personnel and exhausted burial teams” greeted Ebola teams from the capital upon visiting the eastern mining district of Kono, Sierra Leone, reports the Associated Press. With a spike in deaths blamed on dangerous traditional burial
A recent study has documented that nearly half (49.8%) of all Liberian women have been genitally mutilated but this practice seems to be decreasing among younger girls. The practice is not considered a crime. In fact, the Central West African region
The Coca-Cola Company in Liberia, through its Africa Foundation, has pledged to donate $200,000 worth of medical supplies to Liberia’s Ministry of Health in an effort to help thwart the deadly spread of the Ebola virus. The donations are being made in
Family members of an Ebola victim in the devastated town of Jene-Wonde, Liberia, report that they are being denied food and water by villagers as part of their quarantine. Alice Massally, a member of the family, tells FrontPageAfrica the denial
While Ebola may not be dominating the news cycle anymore, some 1,400 individuals are currently being actively monitored for the deadly virus in the United States. The 1,400 individuals are “being monitored because they came from one of the four countries with
On Tuesday, reports out of Pakistan revealed that the country’s second suspected case of Ebola has surfaced in the past twenty-four hours. The 41-year-old man has been kept under watch in an isolation unit at PIMS Hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan,
An experimental vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus has provoked only mild side effects in volunteers in Switzerland, a Geneva hospital said Tuesday. “To date, no major side effects have been observed after the injections,” the Geneva University Hospital (HUG)
The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to miss multiple significant deadlines for isolating Ebola patients in West Africa, which, experts note, means that “there are still going to be many people who catch the disease and many people who die
An unidentified 32-year-old Phoenix resident who returned from Sierra Leone this week has been hospitalized and will be screened for Ebola after complaining of feeling ill and experiencing dry heaves, along with diarrhea. Maricopa Integrated Health System’s chief medical officer, Dr. Robert Fromm said
In response to the Ebola outbreak, President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now requiring all airline passengers from afflicted nations to fly into one of five U.S. airports. The DHS, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control
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As the Ebola outbreak in West Africa appears to be declining in some parts of Liberia, the news for neighboring Sierra Leone has only gotten worst. In an extensive profile of the situation in Ebola-contaminated parts of that nation, the
The mayor of Kenema, Sierra Leone has condemned Ebola Burial Team workers for using the corpses of Ebola victims to protest their lack of payment. The protesters, who have not yet received their salaries for two months, publicly displayed the
British researchers are to conduct trials in Guinea on a 15-minute Ebola test, the Wellcome Trust and UK government said in a joint statement on Friday. The prototype is six times faster than current tests and aims to speed up
Let us now praise famous men. This line from Ecclesiasticus 44:1 today finds human form in one Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. Last week the former prime minister was presented with something called the Global Legacy Award by the Save the
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MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Campaigning is under way for Senate elections in Liberia, another sign that Ebola is loosening its deadly grip on the West African country even as it hits the capital of neighboring Sierra Leone with increasing force.
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s emerging Ebola crisis deepened Thursday as the government announced that a doctor had died from the disease, becoming the second health worker fatality linked to a single patient initially thought to have kidney disease. At
President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty could provide legal status to 1.6 million people living in California, according to new estimates. Expected eligible illegal aliens could gain quasi-legal status under an anticipated expansion of the President’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
The Department of Homeland Security says it will grant temporary amnesty and work permits to immigrants from the three nations most ravaged by the Ebola virus. According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
A 40-year-old woman recently returned from Guinea died in a salon in Brooklyn, allegedly bleeding profusely from her nose and mouth. The woman, who was being monitored for Ebola symptoms, did not test positive for the virus, however. The New York
During a visit to Kentucky’s Fort Campbell on Monday, Pentagon Chief Chuck Hagel told soldiers from the Army’s 101st Airborne Division that they have made a “huge difference” in containing the lethal Ebola virus in West Africa, and he categorized the
A government minister in Ebola-stricken Liberia has blasted aid workers living the high life in the poor West African nation, spending thousands of dollars on stays in top hotels, driving round in expensive cars and routinely earning more than even
On Monday, the the federal government will begin screening incoming travelers from Mali for symptoms of Ebola as a Maryland doctor became the second person to die of Ebola on American soil. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced its
A surgeon judged to be in “extremely critical condition” with the Ebola virus traveled from his native Sierra Leone and arrived at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Saturday. According to a CNN report, the family of Dr. Martin Salia
