Ebola virus

The technician was working on Monday with Ebola specimens that were supposed to have been inactivated but which may instead have contained live virus.

New Ebola cases have slowed down in Guinea and Liberia, but not in Sierra Leone.

The nonprofit medical organization says local people and NGOs were left to do the hands-on work.

Humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières will host trials by European researchers of two drugs and blood plasma therapy at its treatment centers in countries most affected by the Ebola outbreak.

The latest iteration of the superstar-packed music fund-raiser Band Aid is coming together to fight Ebola.

One neighbor tells Newsweek he has yet to receive a call from the city's Department of Health.

"At least 5 vaccines are following closely and will be in the clinic in the first months of 2015," the WHO's Marie-Paule Kieny told reporters.

Liberia has been worst hit, with 4,665 recorded cases and 2,705 deaths, followed by Sierra Leone with 3,706 cases and 1,259 deaths.

An examination of health, economic and education data help explain why the disease escalated so severely in three nations.

The current hysteria has been a wake-up call about infectious disease we should all be worried about

The World Health Organization declared Nigeria Ebola-free Monday, but the disease's economic spillover threatens sub-Saharan Africa's expanding economies.

Among the manifestations of panic, vomiting is being seen as an indication that someone has Ebola.

Emmanuel Smith told a dealer at the Horseshoe Casino Cleveland that he was out gambling because he did not want to catch Ebola from his sick wife

The second nurse to be diagnosed with Ebola flew from Cleveland to Dallas the day before she reported symptoms

The number of people known to have died in the worst Ebola outbreak on record has risen to 4,033 out of 8,399 cases in seven countries, the World Health Organization said on Friday

The hospitalization and recent death of Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, provoked a media firestorm in America which trickled down to websites and conversations in Sierra Leone

Officials addressed the economic and humanitarian impact of the outbreak on Thursday

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, has died, according to the Dallas hospital where he was being treated.

The CDC is very well prepared for Ebola, with the authority and infrastructure to deploy multiple levels of protection against outbreaks of infectious diseases

The White House on Monday said a ban on travel from West African countries would slow the fight against the deadly virus.

A private plane carrying Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman for NBC News who contracted Ebola in Liberia, landed in Omaha and was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center

The technique can return results within three to four hours.

Health officials are warning that the international community needs to commit more to stem the Ebola outbreak before things get even worse

Obama asked for more commitments to contain the disease, which has killed nearly 3,000, before it threatens global and regional security

The worst Ebola outbreak on record has already killed over 2,800 people - more than the combined total of all previous outbreaks

The entire country is forced to stay at home this weekend in an effort to contain the Ebola virus.

U.S. personnel will build treatment centers and train healthcare workers to stem the rapid spread of Ebola

People are already starting to doubt the government's plan to keep everyone in their homes for 3 days

The organization noted that motorbike-taxis and regular taxis are "a hot source of potential virus transmission"