UNITED NATIONS, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The region of West Africa would lose at least 3.6 billion U.S. dollars per year on average between 2014 and 2017 as a consequence of ripple effects of Ebola, according to a UN report released Thursday. Due to a de...
British scientists at the University of Oxford have been human-testing UK's second Ebola vaccine. The first trial of a vaccine against Ebola at the university was carried out back in September. Doctor Neil Walker is one of 87 volunteers taking part i...
LONDON, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- A British military healthcare worker arrived back into Britain from Sierra Leone for Ebola monitoring, Public Health England (PHE) confirmed on Saturday. PHE said the person, suffered a needle-stock injury when treating a...
WINDHOEK, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Although Ebola virus has been contained in some affected African countries, Air Namibia is counting its losses which are said to be at 50 million Namibian dollars (about 5 million U.S dollars). The airline's acting chief...
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- There has been an overall decline in the number of new Ebola cases, especially in the three most affected African countries, said a UN official on Ebola on Tuesday. Briefing on the progress in the global Ebola resp...
A new smart phone application is helping Health workers in Guinea in their fight against Ebola. The West African nation is one of the worst hit by the deadly virus. Health workers in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, are now using the app to locate and...
LONDON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Britain has pledged a 2.5 million pounds (3.93 million U.S. dollars) fund to help children affected by Ebola. The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom said the fund will go to the United Nations I...
The United Nations' special envoy on Ebola says anti-Ebola vaccines could be made available next year. David Nabarro says phase-one trials are currently underway on two candidate vaccines. I think the situation with regards to anti-Ebola vaccines is...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- A critically ill doctor diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus infection in Sierra Leone arrived Saturday in the United States for treatment, the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where he will undergo treatment, confir...
A man was deliberately injected with the deadly Ebola virus in order to find a cure but rather than rest up afterwards, he decided to run a marathon. 一男子为寻解药特意注射了埃博拉病毒,但他事后没有休息,而是决定去跑马...