‘Facing Darkness’ returns to cinemas tonight for encore screening
FACING DARKNESS is a new documentary that tells the story of how Samaritan’s Purse raced against time to rescue two of their own team stricken with the deadly Ebola virus. SCREENING TIME: Monday, April 10, 2017; More...
Where You Should NOT Travel For the Holidays
Being able to travel the world is one of the best benefits of being a free citizen. The world has many interesting places to visit. It can be inspiring and awesome to travel and visit some of the most iconic places More...
WHO: Ebola outbreak in the west is ‘unlikely’
A major outbreak of Ebola in the US and elsewhere in the West is unlikely given the strong health systems, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. US federal health officials will appear before a congressional More...
Darryl Williams to lead 3,000 troops in ‘War on Ebola,’ Lamar Alexander compares it to ISIS
President Obama has announced the new plan to combat Ebola with troops deployed to Liberia, Africa to set up a command center and oversee 3,000 troops to assist with training new health workers and setting up new More...
Peace Corps, Samaritan’s Purse leaving West Africa because of ‘increasing spread of the Ebola virus’
The immensity of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa has made some volunteer and humanitarian agencies decide to pull out of the “hot zone” countries of that area of Africa. Public More...
Ebola update: Historic outbreak continues spinning out of control, 100 new cases reported
The West Africa Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak has now nearly tripled the previous largest outbreak (Uganda 2000-2001, which had 425 cases) and it seems that it is truly out of control. This is rather unusual More...
Dozens of new Ebola cases and deaths reported in West Africa, Sierra Leone’s Dr. Khan still alive according to health ministry
The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak has increased both in cases and fatalities during recent days according to the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa today. Between 18 – 20 July 2014, 45 More...
Ebola 2014: West Africa outbreak tops 1,000 cases, situation remains ‘serious’
The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa has hit a new “milestone” as the World Health Organization reports in an update today than the number of cases have exceeded 1,000. The global health More...
Ebola cases up more than 100 in six days, epidemic in Sierra Leone and Liberia ‘precarious’
While the number of new Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases in Guinea was only one in the past week, the World Health Organization (WHO) says the epidemic trend in Liberia and Sierra Leone remains precarious with high More...
Ebola outbreak in West Africa: MSF says ‘We have reached our limits’
The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, which saw it’s beginnings in February 2014, has grown and spread to become the largest and deadliest outbreak of the lethal virus since first seen in Zaire in 1976. More...
Ebola deaths in West Africa now at 350
Just days after a senior official for Doctors Without Borders told news organizations that the West Africa Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak was “out of control”, the World Health Organization (WHO) More...
Ebola outbreak update: New cases in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia
Guinea Between 14 and 16 June 2014, a total of 7 new cases and 5 new deaths were reported from Gueckedou (4 cases and 5 deaths) and Boffa (3 cases and 0 deaths). This brings the cumulative number of cases and deaths More...
The Ebola cases keep coming: Additional cases reported in Guinea, Sierra Leone
WHO Global Alert and Response Guinea On 5 June 2014, a new district, Kouroussa, reported 1 new case and 1 death. This brings to date a total of 7 new cases nationwide (4 confirmed, 3 suspected), including 6 new More...
Ebola update: 11 new cases in Guinea, nine in Sierra Leone
WHO Global Alert and Response Between 2 and 3 June 2014, 11 new cases (8 confirmed, 1 probable and 2 suspected) and 3 new deaths were reported from Conakry (7 new cases and 1 death), Gueckedou (2 new cases and 1 More...
West Africa Ebola cases eclipse 400, MSF to set up treatment center in Sierra Leone
The number of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases reported in West Africa continues to climb with cases being reported in Boffa on Guinea’s coast to Telimele in Kindia region. New patients have also been registered More...
Ebola in West Africa. Is it the worst Ebola outbreak ever?
The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak, which saw it’s first cases appear in February 2014 in Guinea, the first time ever seen in west Africa, doesn’t appear to be close to ending as new cases are popping More...
Sierra Leone Ebola outbreak rises to 50
The number of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases in Sierra Leone has jumped to 50 cases, up from 16 reported just two days ago, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) update today. Photo/CDC 34 new cases (7 More...
Sierra Leone Ebola outbreak update
In a follow-up to the news that the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has spread to the west African country of Sierra Leone shows the number of cases have grown since the weekend. Image/Charles Humphrey According to the More...
Ebola confirmed in Sierra Leone
Just two days after the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the west African country was “stable with no new cases being reported”, the lethal virus has now been confirmed in the town of Koindu More...
Ebola update: 141 deaths in Guinea
The latest update on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in west Africa was released by the World Health Organization (WHO) today and it shows that there is a cumulative total of 218 clinical cases of Ebola More...
