Tag: Ebola
Unknown Disease Spreads Ebola-like Panic Worldwide
The Ebola epidemic witnessed in 2014 was the biggest in history. It affected a number of countries in West Africa and there are reported...
A Year After Its Start, Ebola Still Rages On
The numbers of Ebola cases are falling in West Africa, but instead of slowing down, the epidemic still kills over three quarters of those...
Ebola Threat Reduced for the First Time
West Africa’s Ebola epidemic, which has sickened more than 22,000 people since it started last year, has slowed significantly, according to officials. The largest...
Top Searches in 2014 – Hollywood Stars and Pandemic Scare
The most popular search engines traditionally release a list of the most searched terms for the year. While Google is yet to announce its...
Travel and Transport Task Force on Ebola virus disease outbreak in...
Leading international organizations and associations from the transport, trade and tourism sector stand firmly with the World Health Organization (WHO) against general bans on...
Rapid Rise of Ebola Cases
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in eight different countries reached 13,500 last week, said the World Health Organization. While there is a relative...
Surviving Ebola Depends on Your Genes
Ebola is considered one of the deadliest diseases with approximately half of the infected people in the current West African outbreak dying from the...
MERS Returns with 23 New Cases
Although Ebola is clearly dominating international news with horrifying statistics being released every day, Saudi Arabia’s Health Ministry reminded about the threat of the...
Countries Begin Issuing Travel Bans over Ebola Scare
The World Health Organization, as well as other health experts, says travel or trade ban to any of the Ebola-affected countries in the current...
Hunger, Cancer, Ebola, AIDS… Obesity Tops Them All
The Ebola virus is dominating all global news right now, with some countries starting to consider imposing travel bans and closing their borders. And...
Dubai Isolates Liberian Traveler with Ebola Symptoms
A passenger who traveled from Liberia through Morocco was quarantined on Wednesday by health authorities in Dubai. The Liberian traveler felt sick during the...
5 Passengers Removed from Dubai Flight Over Ebola
Five passengers with flu-like symptoms were removed from a commercial Emirates airliner, which arrived at Boston’s Logan Airport from Dubai on Monday. Later, officials...
WHO: Ebola Is the Worst Health Emergency in Modern Times
The Ebola death toll has surpassed 4,000, while more than 8,000 cases of the disease have been reported. Today, the World health Organization said...
Ebola Prevention: What You Need to Know
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is getting out of control, according to health experts, with a recent rapid increase in the reported cases....
First Ebola Transmission outside Africa
A nurse in Spain, who had treated the elderly priest Manuel Garcia Viejo from Ebola in a Madrid hospital, is now also infected. This...
Ebola Could Reach Europe by October End
The worst Ebola outbreak in history, which is now spreading rapidly across West Africa, could reach Europe by the end of October, according to...
First Ebola Case Diagnosed in the US
Health authorities in the United States announced they have diagnosed the first Ebola case in the country, which is also the first one to...
Ebola Cases May Reach 1.4 Million by February
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is gaining speed with hundreds of new infections each week, but recently the American CDC defined the worst-case...