Poverty is at the root of west Africa’s ebola crisis
The fact that a Cobra meeting is being held on Wednesday is the reason the deadly disease is unlikely to take hold in the UK. It also explains why it has spread so fast in west Africa.
The fact that a Cobra meeting is being held on Wednesday is the reason the deadly disease is unlikely to take hold in the UK. It also explains why it has spread so fast in west Africa.
Sierra Leone’s leading Ebola doctor, Sheik Umar Khan, dies from the virus, after treating over 100 patients during the worst outbreak on record.
An outbreak of Ebola has killed more than 670 people across Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. So what do we need to know about this highly contagious virus?
As west African countries battle against a deadly outbreak of the ebola virus, Moses Kortu reports from Sierra Leone on the devastating effect it has had in his home town.
An ongoing outbreak of ebola, one of the world’s deadliest diseases, has already cost 467 lives and is being described by some experts as “out of control”. But why is it so lethal?
British firm London Mining evacuates a number of “non-essential” workers from Sierra Leone following an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.