Tropical diseases
Ebola death rate up to 70 percent: WHO
The death rate in the Ebola epidemic raging in west Africa has reached around 70 percent, the World Health Organization said
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UN Medical Worker Dies of Ebola in Germany
A United Nations medical worker infected with Ebola virus while working in Liberia has died in a hospital in Germany.
German medical authorities said on Tuesday the man - a doctor from Sudan whose name has not been released - died overnight in St. Georg hospital in the city ofLeipzigdespite "intensive medical procedures".
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Ebola-infected UN employee dies in Germany: hospital
A UN employee infected with the Ebola virus in west Africa has died after arriving in Germany last week for treatment, the hospital said Oct.14.
"There'll be no Ebola epidemic in Europe"
"There'll be no Ebola epidemic in Europe"
BELGRADE -- Serbian citizens "have no reason" to fear there will be an outbreak of Ebola as "control and prevention measures are being implemented to the greatest extent."
This is what head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in Serbia Miljana Grbić said on Monday....
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Grbic: There is no reason for fear of Ebola in Serbia
BELGRADE - Serbian citizens have no reason to be afraid of an outbreak of Ebola because "control and prevention measures are being implemented to the greatest extent," Head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Country Office in Serbia Miljana Grbic said Monday.
US official criticized for blaming 'protocol breach' as nurse gets Ebola
Some healthcare experts are bristling at the assertion by a top U.S. health official that a 'protocol breach' caused a Dallas nurse to be infected with Ebola while caring for a dying patient
Exponential Ebola
Here are two good things about the Ebola virus. It is unlikely to mutate into a version that can spread through the air. And people who have been infected by Ebola cannot pass it on to others during the incubation period
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Macedonia Authorities Say Briton Did Not Die of Ebola
Jovanka Kostovska, from Macedonia's Commission for Infective Diseases, said on Saturday that the results from the referent laboratory from Germany showed that the Briton Colin Jeffrey, whose death on Thursday triggered panic of Ebola outbreak, did not die of Ebola.
Ebola Increasingly Unlikely Cause of British Man’s Death in Skopje
It is increasingly unlikely Ebola virus had caused the death of a British national in Macedonia, Macedonian news agency MIA reported on Saturday.
Greek hospital on standby for Ebola outbreak
One public hospital, the Amalia Fleming in northern Athens, has been put on standby to deal with an Ebola outbreak in Greece while medical specialists have been dispatched to the countrys main entry points in a bid to contain possible arrival of the deadly disease, authorities said Friday.
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