The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

The 2014 Ebola outbreak – the deadliest in history – was primarily in West Africa but affected Sierra Leone the most, with nearly 4,000 deaths out of the more than 11,000 recorded globally.

The government's vaccine campaign, developed in collaboration with global health organizations including Gavi, the World Health Organization and UNICEF, is set to reach 20,000 frontline workers ...

Authorities in Sierra Leone on Thursday started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine, the first such campaign in West Africa, where a deadly outbreak 10 years ago resulted in the ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Authorities in Sierra Leone on Thursday started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine, the first such campaign in West Africa where a deadly ...

A health worker administers a single-dose of Ebola vaccine, to a man at the Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Dennis Alfred Cole ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone has started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine. The campaign, which started on Thursday, makes Sierra Leone the first country to ...