Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has signed a $5 million deal for an Ebola vaccine, to protect against future outbreaks of…
The World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to confirm that Sierra Leone is free of Ebola. The Ebola outbreak killed…
Ebola vaccine VSB- EBOV has led to 100% protection and could transform the way the virus is tackled, preliminary results…
A new Ebola drug has cured monkeys infected with the virus, US researchers announced. Experimental drug TKM-Ebola-Guinea targets the Makona…
Guinea has declared a 45-day "health emergency" in five regions in the west and south-west of the country over Ebola.…
Ten US healthcare workers are being evacuated from Sierra Leone after another aid worker back from the West African country…
Sierra Leone Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana has put himself into quarantine after one of his bodyguards died from Ebola. Samuel Sam-Sumana…
A trial of brincidofovir - a potential drug to treat Ebola - has started at a Medecins Sans Frontieres center…
The current Ebola outbreak will be ended in 2015, Anthony Banbury, the head of the UN team fighting the disease,…
According to scientists, a two-year-old boy called Emile Ouamouno from Guinea - the Ebola victim who is believed to have…
In an attempt to contain the Ebola epidemic, Sierra Leone has declared lockdown of at least three days in the…
A number of bodies have been discovered by health officials in Kono, a remote diamond-mining area of Sierra Leone, raising…
President Barack Obama has again called for Congress to approve $6 billion in emergency aid to fight the deadly Ebola…
British scientists will trial a 15-minute blood and saliva Ebola test in Guinea. The solar-powered, portable laboratory should deliver results…
The experimental vaccine against Ebola is safe and may help the immune system to combat the virus, the first human…
The foundation run by former Microsoft boss Bill Gates and his wife Melinda has pledged $5.7 million towards a program…
Bob Geldof has revealed that pre-orders of the new Band Aid single have been "manic" since its unveiling. The Band…
Martin Salia, surgeon from Sierra Leone, who is critically ill with Ebola, has arrived in the US for treatment. Dr.…
Clinical trials for an effective Ebola treatment are to start in West Africa in December. The medical charity Medicins Sans…
The Ebola outbreak death toll has risen to 5,160, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced in a new report.…
Health workers treating Ebola patients at a clinic in Sierra Leone have gone on strike, protesting about the government's failure…
The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations finals will not take place in Morocco because of the country’s fears over the…
CBS News’s correspondent Lara Logan is being quarantined in a South Africa hotel for 21 days as a precaution after…
An emergency fund has been set up by top African business leaders to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak.…
Teresa Romero, the Spanish nurse who became the first person known to have contracted Ebola outside West Africa in the…