The US is now dealing with the first case of Ebola to spread outside of Africa. As the size of the epidemic continues to grow exponentially there is a very high chance it won’t be the last.
The Ebola epidemic has exposed Sierra Leone’s inability to combat a health crisis. Days after the country’s nationwide lockdown, it is still the disabled and the elderly who are most vulnerable.
With the spread of Ebola now out of control in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea a vaccine now being tested in the UK is probably the only hope for eventually stopping the outbreak.
Scientists estimate that the size of the Ebola epidemic in somewhere like Monrovia, the Liberian capital, could double in a fortnight.
Jonathan Miller
If we weren’t living in such dangerous times, West Africa’s Ebola emergency would not have to do battle with the Islamic State and a belligerent Vladimir Putin to grab world attention.
The World Health Organisation warn the Ebola virus is spreading fast in Liberia, as scientists move one step closer to finding a working vaccine after a drug protected monkeys for 10 months.
The first Briton to catch the Ebola virus during the current outbreak in west Africa says he feared he was going to die as he leaves the London hospital where he was treated.
Medecins Sans Frontieres president has accused world leaders of failing to address the outbreak of the Ebola disease. He said urgent action was needed to contain the epidemic.
The first Briton to get Ebola is flown into London for treatment, as the death toll rises to 1,427 people. Channel 4 News speaks to the man who discovered Ebola and charts the spread of the disease.
Nurse William Pooley, the first Briton to contract Ebola in Sierra Leone, is an “extraordinary guy” who was working at the “ground zero” of the outbreak, his colleague tells Channel 4 News.
A Briton infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone is being evacuated to the UK, the African country’s health ministry says.
Two US aid workers beat Ebola thanks to an experimental drug, giving renewed hope in the fight to contain the outbreak behind more than 1,400 deaths in Africa.
Cut off from the rest of the world thanks to the outbreak of the killer virus, people in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, are on the brink of starvation.
West Africa’s raging epidemic of Ebola virus is an “extraordinary event” and now constitutes an international risk, the World Health Organisation says, as the number of deaths rise to 961.
The head of the World Health Organisation warns the outbreak of the Ebola virus in western Africa is running out of control. C4 News asks Sierra Leone’s high commissioner, Edward Turay, if he agrees.