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

She said that the “good news” was in spite of the fact that more conclusive evidence was needed to ascertain the effectiveness of the new vaccine.

A vaccine for the Ebola virus – the first of its kind in the disease’s 40-year recorded history – shows promise in trials in Guinea, according to a report released Friday in the medical journal Lancet.

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

A new Ebola vaccine is being called “highly effective” following a small study in Guinea, West Africa.

Those involved in funding the trial called it a “remarkable” result and said the co-operation between organisations and countries that allowed it to come about augured well for future outbreaks of unsafe viruses.

“The “ring” vaccination method adopted for the vaccine trial is based on the smallpox eradication strategy”, John-Arne Røttingen, M.D., Ph.D., director of the division of infectious disease control at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and chair of...

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.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said the genetic sequence of the virus sampled from the 17-year-old victim at the centre of the first cases for three months did not match variants circulating in neighbouring Guinea or Sierra Leone.

More than 11,200 people have died from Ebola since an epidemic broke out in December 2013 in neighbouring Guinea.

Another €8 million will be given to all countries affected by Ebola for multi-country projects. Many major economic sectors have been affected: agriculture, mining, trade, tourism, transport, fisheries and livestock. The functioning of schools, hospitals and other public...

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...