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But health officials are wary, because the virus has returned before after apparently having been eliminated.

About 50 percent of survivors experience joint pain, and 25 percent have reported eye problems like inflammation, impaired vision, and even blindness.

However, a vaccine has not been licensed yet, as it still remains experimental. And to be honest I wasn’t sure if I ever would have expected this to happen during my active (career) time. But in science, assumptions don’t count – data do.

In the previous week to July 26, the two countries had seven confirmed cases, which was the lowest in the past year up until then, according to the WHO. “So they have got almost 600 people quarantined around a single case”, Aylward said, pointing to “massive...

The British medical journal Lancet has published early test results and analyses of the findings.

WHO’s announcement said while the vaccine has shown 100 percent efficacy in individuals, “more conclusive evidence is needed on its capacity to protect populations through what is called ‘herd immunity.’ To that end, the Guinean national regulatory...

At this point no country would consider vaccinating all its children against Ebola, for example.

Cassius Kollie is one of four people being treated for Ebola at a specialised treatment unit in the ELWA hospital in Monrovia.

Researchers say, this experiment should be advanced into an NIH phase I clinic study.

Liberia’s last confirmed case, in March, was also suspected to be linked to sexual transmission, because the virus isolated from that patient, Ruth Tugbah, who died, closely matched that detected in the semen of her boyfriend, who had recovered from Ebola months before she...

Speaking at the UN Secretary General’s global Conference on Ebola Recovery in New York, Justine Greening announced a new 2 year package to support the government of Sierra Leone in its plan to recover from the outbreak.

Seven weeks after being declared Ebola-free, Liberia has found a second case of the deadly disease, sparking fears that the country could find itself back in the middle of an epidemic if precautions are not put in place.

By Paul Obi in Abuja 
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More than 11,200 people have died since past year in the worst Ebola outbreak on record, almost all of them in the three neighbouring countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. An oral swab taken before the burial subsequently tested positive twice for EVD [Ebola virus...

The two new confirmed cases could be the start of another crisis for Liberia if not handled but health authorities are confident that the situation will be put under control.