Ebola

There’s an international relief effort under way to contain an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Three experts from the UK are among those being deployed, with 45 people believed to have been infected by the disease. Some 25 people have died, but the World Health Organisation has said the…

A British nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone is re-admitted to hospital in London due to an “unusual late complication”.

After 42 days without a new case, the west African state of Liberia, the country worst hit by the latest Ebola outbreak, is declared free of the disease by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.

A UK military healthcare worker in Sierra Leone tests positive for Ebola, Public Health England (PHE) confirm.

The world’s first large-scale Ebola vaccine trial gets underway in Liberia, as a second British military healthcare worker is flown back to the UK for monitoring after possible exposure to the virus.

A British military healthcare worker is returned to England for Ebola monitoring following a needle injury after treating a patient in Sierra Leone.

The first batch of GlaxoSmithKline’s experimental Ebola vaccine has been shipped to West Africa and is expected to arrive in Liberia later today, the British drugmaker says.

A charity involved in treating people with Ebola in west Africa says it is investigating how a British nurse in a critical condition contracted the virus in Sierra Leone.

The condition of British nurse Pauline Cafferkey has deteriorated and is now critical, as tests for Ebola on a patient in Swindon come back negative.

Screening measures for Ebola are to be reviewed after a health worker was found to have the virus having flown on from Heathrow after repeated tests.

Nurse Pauline Cafferkey is transferred to London’s Royal Free hospital to be treated for Ebola, as two more people are tested for the disease in Truro and Aberdeen.

A woman who was working for Save the Children in Sierra Leone has arrived in London for specialist treatment after being diagnosed with Ebola. A second suspected case is being tested in Glasgow.

Almost a year after the first death from Ebola, Sierra Leone surpasses its neighbour Liberia as having the highest number of cases in the world.

Kaci Hickox was put in an isolation unit on her arrival back in the US from West Africa. She tells Channel 4 News it takes time and compassion to tackle misinformation.

Footage shot by Street Child in Sierra Leone shows how Ebola is affecting teenagers’ lives – turning children into orphans and outcasts.