Ebola virus disease

A doctor said to be "extremely ill" after being infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone was being treated in the United States on Nov. 16, while the world's most powerful economies vowed to "extinguish" the deadly epidemic.
      

Global aid agency Doctors Without Borders said on Nov. 13 it would begin unprecedented trials within a month on Ebola drugs and blood from survivors using patients in west Africa.
      
The trials in Guinea are aimed at rushing out an emergency therapy to battle an epidemic which has taken more than 5,000 lives since December.
      

The use of transparent plastic sheets to line the cabins of EKAB emergency ambulances has been included in the list of precautionary measures to be taken in the eventuality of EKAB ambulance crews being called to handle a suspected case of Ebola.

The Health Ministry’s general secretary Christina Papanikolaou on Tuesday called on the directors of the country’s state hospitals to brief authorities regarding their level of readiness to deal with a potential Ebola infection.

A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus went for a bike ride on Oct. 30, defying Maine's order that she be quarantined in her home and setting up a legal collision with Governor Paul LePage.
   

A 33-year-old man from Galati (north-east of the Capital), who on Oct. 18 had returned home from Equatorial Guinea, a country hit by Ebola epidemic, was urgently taken to Bucharest Victor Babes Hospital of Infectious and Tropical Diseases on Tuesday.

The suspicious powdery substance that was sent to six consulates in Istanbul, leading to the hospitalization of more than 30 staff members, was a material similar to chalk dust, a Turkish official has said.

Health Ministry Undersecretary Eyüp Gümüş said Oct. 28 that the powder tested negative for biological and toxic agents.

The number of cases in the Ebola outbreak has exceeded 10,000, with 4,922 deaths, the World Health Organization says in its latest report.

Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are the three countries worst-hit by the deadly virus, with 10,114 people infected there and 4,912 deaths recorded.

The European Commission has announced EUR 24.4M from the EU budget for urgently needed Ebola research.

A doctor who recently returned to New York from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive on Oct. 23 for the deadly virus, the first confirmed case in the city, officials said.
      
The 33-year-old -- identified by US media as Craig Spencer -- has been placed in isolation, in what is the fourth case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States and the first outside Texas.