Dr. Cole's death came after those of nearly all of the local providers who handled the first wave of cases, including Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, Sierra Leone's leading viral hemorrhagic fever expert.
Ebola Outbreak 2014
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A COLLECTION OF EBOLA-RELATED ARTICLES FOR GENERAL REFERENCE
Curated by
Robin Landis
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WHO -- The number of deaths from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has climbed to 1,229, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. 
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WHO -- Travel to and from Ebola-affected countries is low-risk. Our infographic shows you what you need to know while travelling and at your destination.
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The Ministry of Interior has issued an advisory against traveling to the four West Africa countries, affected by the Ebola outbreak. The Interior Minister Aleu Ayieny Aleu said entrance permits shall be restricted for travelers from those countries. He said people coming from the affected countries will be isolated at the ministry of health for 30 days on arrival, peacekeepers and other international staff will be isolated at UNMISS.
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Tens of Kenyans working there are stranded, as the deadline for Kenya Airways to fly to the region approaches. According to the World Health Organization, the scale of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been vastly underestimated and extra ordinary measures are needed to contain the disease. As the epidemic continues to claim lives, NTV's Yvonne Maingey spoke with John Mwangi, a Kenyan who moved to Freetown three months ago, and is currently trying to come back home.
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The Liberian government admits 17 patients suspected of having Ebola have escaped a treatment centre in the capital, Monrovia.
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Harvard-affiliated physicians expect one deadly side effect of the West African Ebola outbreak will be a surge in deaths from non-Ebola causes due to the widespread shutdown of health clinics in affected countries. Via SustainOurEarth
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The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Secretariat is concerned by the possibility of Ebola transmission from West Africa to the Horn of Africa.
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The Government of the United Kingdom, through the Secretary of State for International Development, supported by the DFID Country Offices in Liberia and Sierra Leone has approved support for the Ebola Response plan valued at US $8.3 Million.
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1. Introduction
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Following earlier denials, Liberia admits that 17 suspected Ebola patients are "missing" after a health centre was looted on Saturday.
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As the Ebola epidemic in West Africa endures, some parallels are being drawn between the virus and HIV and AIDS.
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East African countries secure protective kits for surveillance and management of disease, dispatch teams to districts and scale up information campaigns. In Summary:
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Uganda is on high alert for Ebola, after the World Health Organization last Wednesday classified neighboring Kenya as a "high-risk" country, in the spread of Virus. Local authorities have begun screening passengers arriving at Entebbe, Uganda's principal international airport.
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The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa continues to evolve, with cases confirmed in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. At present, no cases have been confirmed anywhere else in the world outside these four countries.
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WHO -- Travel to and from #Ebola-affected countries is low-risk. Our infographic shows you what you need to know while travelling and at your destination.
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Liberia has found all 17 suspected Ebola patients who fled a quarantine centre in Monrovia at the weekend and transferred them to another clinic, the information minister said on Tuesday. "We are glad to confirm that all of the 17 individuals have been accounted for and have now been transferred to JFK Ebola specialist treatment centre," said Lewis Brown. He also said that three infected African doctors who had received the experimental Ebola drug Zmapp were showing "remarkable signs of improvement", quoting an assessment by the doctor overseeing their treatment.
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The Ebola outbreak has been spreading through Liberia with alarming speed — more than 780 cases, with 100 identified over a recent two-day period. Yet for weeks there have been only two places in the country where patients could get medical care, one in the country's rural north and one in the capital, Monrovia. Doctors Without Borders has now opened a third facility.
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ZMapp is an experimental biopharmaceutical drug comprising three humanized monoclonal antibodies under development as a treatment for Ebola virus disease. The drug was first tested in humans during the 2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak.... Via Gilbert C FAURE
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“Getty Images photographer John Moore travels to Liberia to cover the burgeoning Ebola outbreak in the West African country, and he describes the scene and precautions he and health workers...”
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According to a top World Bank official, international agencies are exploring the possibilities of sending emergency truck convoys and air-dropping food to citizens of Liberia and Sierra Leone, who have been quarantined to stop the proliferation of...
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After killing many doctors and nurses at various hospitals across the Liberia, the deadly Ebola virus has reportedly attacked inmates at the Monrovia Central Prison Compound leaving one inmate dead.
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The Daily Vox is running a series of blogs written by DR STEFAN KRUGER, who is in Sierra Leone with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to help combat the spread of Ebola in the region.
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Doctors and nurses fighting Ebola in West Africa are working 14-hour days, seven days a week, wearing head-to-toe gear in the heat of muddy clinics. Agonizing death is the norm. The hellish conditions aren't the only problem: Heal...
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Guinea said on Saturday it will reopen an Ebola clinic in its remote southeast as sick nationals living in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Earlier this week the head of Guinea's Ebola commission said that 3,000 people were waiting at 17 border points for the green light to enter the country. Each has to be examined by a medical team and those with fever are isolated... ...The World Food Programme says it plans to launch food deliveries to the area next week as part of a plan to provide emergency supplies to the more than 1 million people living within the area. "The idea is to avoid finding ourselves in one month's time with a food crisis as well as a health crisis," said Fabienne Pompey, a WFP spokeswoman said on Saturday.
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