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The number of suspected, probable and confirmed Ebola cases has risen to 45, with 25 people dead(Photo:UNICEF)

Ebola outbreak not yet an international emergency - WHO

An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo does not yet constitute an international public health emergency and there are strong reasons to believe it can be brought under control, the World Health Organisation has said.

World • 18 May 18

The WHO has expressed concern over the outbreak

Ebola case confirmed in DR Congo city

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to a city, the World Health Organisation said, raising concern the deadly virus may prove tougher to contain.

World • 17 May 18

It's the ninth time that Ebola has been recorded in the country

17 deaths reported in Congo as Ebola outbreak confirmed

At least 17 people have died in an area of northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo where officials have confirmed an outbreak of Ebola, the health ministry has said.

Ebola • 08 May 18

An outbreak of Ebola that began in 2013 killed 11,000 people, mainly in Liberia

Experimental Ebola vaccines show promise

Two experimental Ebola vaccines have shown promise in protecting against the virus for at least a year, according to the results of a major clinical trial.

World • 12 Oct 17

The last outbreak of Ebola in Congo was in 2014, when dozens of people died

Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo

An Ebola outbreak has been declared in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said this afternoon, after the virus caused three deaths in the area since 22 April.

World • 12 May 17

The Ebola epidemic infected more than 28,600 people and killed around 11,300 before coming under control last year

'Superspreaders' fuelled Ebola epidemic - report

Most people infected with Ebola in the world's worst outbreak of the deadly virus contracted it from just a tiny fraction of patients known as "superspreaders", researchers have said.

News • 14 Feb 17

Liberia was declared free of Ebola in January

New Ebola death in Liberia months after all clear

A woman has died of Ebola in Liberia, months after the West African nation was declared free of the deadly virus and weeks after neighbouring Guinea also recorded a new flare-up, health officials said this afternoon.

News • 01 Apr 16

An outbreak of Ebola that began in 2013 killed 11,300 people

Ebola no longer an international emergency - WHO

The World Health Organisation has said that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa no longer constitutes an international emergency, voicing confidence that remaining isolated cases in the affected countries can be contained.

Health • 29 Mar 16

British nurse Pauline Cafferkey is in a London hospital for treatment for a "late complication" from Ebola

Ebola survivors hit with long-term brain problems

A majority of Ebola survivors suffer some form of long-term brain health problems, according to a new study.

News • 25 Feb 16

Sierra Leone was declared Ebola free on 7 November 2015

Sierra Leone reports Ebola death

A woman who died of Ebola this week in Sierra Leone potentially exposed at least 27 other people to the disease, according to an aid agency report.

News • 15 Jan 16

WHO stressed though that 'the job is not over' and that further Ebola flare-ups are expected

Ebola epidemic in west Africa has ended - WHO

The World Health Organisation has announced that the Ebola epidemic that ravaged west Africa for two years was over after Liberia, the last affected country, received the all-clear.

News • 14 Jan 16

Liberia had been declared Ebola-free in September

New case of Ebola emerges in Liberia

The World Health Organization this morning confirmed that a new case of the deadly Ebola virus has surfaced in Liberia, which was declared Ebola free in September.

News • 20 Nov 15

At one point, Pauline Cafferkey was described as "critically ill"

Scottish nurse with Ebola discharged from hospital

The nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone, has been released from isolation after being treated for meningitis caused by the deadly virus.

World • 12 Nov 15

Ebola has killed almost 4,000 people since it began last year

Sierra Leone celebrates end of Ebola epidemic

Residents of Sierra Leone's capital held a candlelit vigil and celebrations overnight to mark the end of an Ebola epidemic.

News • 07 Nov 15

A laboratory investigation showed the dead person did not have Ebola or Lassa fever

Suspected Ebola death was not from the virus

A person who died in a suspected case of Ebola in Nigeria, triggering a scare and the quarantine of 10 others, did not have the deadly virus, according to World Health Organization spokesman Gregory Hartl.

News • 09 Oct 15

A mural carrying messages about the deadly Ebola virus on a street corner in Monrovia, Liberia

Ten quarantined in Nigerian Ebola scare

Ten people have been quarantined after coming into contact with a patient with Ebola-like symptoms in the southern Nigerian city of Calabar, officials said, a year after the country was declared free of the deadly disease.

World • 08 Oct 15

11,300 people have died since an outbreak of Ebola in December 2013 in Guinea

50 quarantined after Ebola death in Sierra Leone

Fifty people have been placed in quarantine in northern Sierra Leone after the death of a middle-aged woman from the Ebola virus, in a setback for the country's bid to gain Ebola-free status.

News • 02 Sep 15

An Ebola outbreak began in west Africa in 2013

Ebola vaccine proves fully effective in trial

An Ebola vaccine developed in record time has proved highly effective against the deadly virus in a large trial in Guinea.

News • 01 Aug 15

Nearly 5,000 people died in the recent Ebola outbreak in Liberia

Liberia declared Ebola free by UN health agency

The UN health agency has declared Liberia Ebola-free, hailing the "monumental" achievement in the west African country where the virus has killed more than 4,700 people.

News • 09 May 15

More than 26,000 people have been infected with Ebola since the outbreak in west Africa began

Ebola drug cures monkeys infected with virus

An experimental Ebola drug cured all three monkeys intentionally infected with the virus, scientists reported yesterday.

News • 23 Apr 15

The WHO said the spread of the Ebola virus has slowed to a crawl

More than 26,000 infected with Ebola - WHO

More than 26,000 people have been infected with Ebola since the outbreak began and more than 10,800 have died, the World Health Organization has said.

News • 22 Apr 15

Anna Cross expressed her gratitude to the team that treated her, saying, "thanks to them I'm alive".

Woman recovers from Ebola using new treatment

A British army reservist who contracted Ebola while working as a volunteer nurse in Sierra Leone has fully recovered after becoming the first patient in the world to receive an experimental new treatment.

News • 27 Mar 15

A healthworker takes the temperature of a child and her mother in Sierra Leone

Ebola warning 'like shouting into a desert' - MSF

A leading charity has said early calls for help in tackling the spread of Ebola were ignored by local governments and the World Health Organisation.

News • 23 Mar 15

The patient was airlifted from Sierra Leone and was admitted to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland

US Ebola patient's condition now critical

The condition of a US healthcare worker who was infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone has worsened and is now critical, hospital officials said.

News • 16 Mar 15

A health worker prepares to remove a corpse from a house in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Ebola-hit countries seek economic help

The three west African states hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak have asked for help from donors to repair the damage to their economies now that the epidemic seems to be waning.

News • 03 Mar 15