FREETOWN (Reuters) - The death toll from Ebola in Sierra Leone has doubled to at least 12 in a week, local health authorities said on Monday, deepening the spread of a disease that has killed over 200 ...
FREETOWN/GENEVA (Reuters) - Sierra Leone does not yet have enough beds in treatment centers to isolate Ebola patients, but overall, the tide of the disease is being turned, the United Nations and ...
Sitting outside her brick house in this northern town of Sierra Leone, Nana Kamara held a picture of her daughter, who in 2014 died of Ebola virus disease, and she began to cry inconsolably. The ...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The World Health Organization said Saturday it could not meet a request from Sierra Leone to evacuate a doctor who contracted the deadly Ebola disease. Dr. Olivet Buck is ...
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 begin a ...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A Sierra Leone soldier has tested positive for Ebola but he is not a member of, and had no contact with, a battalion of peacekeepers waiting to deploy to Somalia, a ...
The Ebola epidemic is expected to be declared over in Sierra Leone on Saturday, when the west African nation will have gone 42 days without any new infections. But jubilation over ending the outbreak ...
A group of junior doctors went on strike in Sierra Leone on Monday, demanding better treatment for medical workers who become infected with Ebola. The group asked Sierra Leone's government to provide ...
Sierra Leone's leading doctor died of Ebola on Thursday, hours after the arrival in the country of an experimental drug that could have been used to treat him, the government's chief medical officer ...
Updates on the Ebola epidemic have largely faded from the news. Unfortunately, the fight to contain the lethal virus is not over. The AFP reported that an new Ebola outbreak hit Sierra Leone, quashing ...
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 outbreak 10 ...