Ebola
Pre-empting the next pandemic
Recent disease outbreaks, like Ebola and Zika, have demonstrated the need to anticipate pandemics and contain them before they emerge.
New Ebola case emerges in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone officials confirm a death from Ebola, hours after the World Health Organization declared the latest West Africa outbreak over.
Guinea to be declared free of Ebola virus
Guinea is to be declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (WHO), two years after the epidemic began there.
WHO accused of 'egregious failure' on Ebola
The World Health Organization's failure to sound the alarm until months into West Africa's Ebola outbreak was an "egregious failure" which added to the enormous suffering and death toll, global health experts say.
Global health experts accuse WHO of 'egregious failure' on Ebola
The World Health Organization's failure to sound the alarm until months into West Africa's Ebola outbreak was an "egregious failure" which added to the enormous suffering and death toll, global health experts say.
WHO to declare end of Ebola in Sierra Leone
The World Health Organization is set to announce that Ebola-ravaged Sierra Leone has beaten an epidemic that killed almost 4,000 of its people and plunged the economy into recession.
Universal flu vaccine comes
Researchers say they are closer to developing a vaccine to give life-long protection against any type of flu, after promising trials in animals.
Ebola 'lives in eye of survivor'
The Ebola virus has been detected in the eye of a US doctor who had already recovered from the illness.
Ebola drug cures infected moneys
An experimental drug cures monkeys infected with the Ebola virus, US-based scientists say. The treatment, known as TKM-Ebola-Guinea, targets Makona strain of the virus.
Pre-empting the next pandemic
Recent disease outbreaks, like Ebola and Zika, have demonstrated the need to anticipate pandemics and contain them before they emerge.
New Ebola case emerges in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone officials confirm a death from Ebola, hours after the World Health Organization declared the latest West Africa outbreak over.
Guinea to be declared free of Ebola virus
Guinea is to be declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (WHO), two years after the epidemic began there.
Global health experts accuse WHO of 'egregious failure' on Ebola
The World Health Organization's failure to sound the alarm until months into West Africa's Ebola outbreak was an "egregious failure" which added to the enormous suffering and death toll, global health experts say.
WHO accused of 'egregious failure' on Ebola
The World Health Organization's failure to sound the alarm until months into West Africa's Ebola outbreak was an "egregious failure" which added to the enormous suffering and death toll, global health experts say.
WHO to declare end of Ebola in Sierra Leone
The World Health Organization is set to announce that Ebola-ravaged Sierra Leone has beaten an epidemic that killed almost 4,000 of its people and plunged the economy into recession.
Universal flu vaccine comes
Researchers say they are closer to developing a vaccine to give life-long protection against any type of flu, after promising trials in animals.
Ebola 'lives in eye of survivor'
The Ebola virus has been detected in the eye of a US doctor who had already recovered from the illness.
Ebola drug cures infected moneys
An experimental drug cures monkeys infected with the Ebola virus, US-based scientists say. The treatment, known as TKM-Ebola-Guinea, targets Makona strain of the virus.
Ebola survivors ‘safe sex warning’
The WHO urges Ebola survivors to be even more cautious during sexual contact to ensure the virus is not passed on to their partners.
