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Health authorities in DRC step up efforts to avoid spread of deadly Ebola virus
Three died in the outbreak in an isolated area and families are fleeing.
Ebola vaccine? Antibodies in survivor's blood offer best protection against deadly disease
ADI-15878 and ADI-15742 could work against all ebolaviruses.
Meet Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the new Director General of the World Health Organisation
Dr Tedros served previously as health minister and foreign affairs minister in Ethiopia.
Deadly Ebola virus could be passed on through breathing
Signs of Ebola viral replication was detected in the lung five days after disappearing from blood.
It's possible to be infected with Ebola and not show any symptoms
A minority of Ebola patients appear to show little or no symptoms following an infection.
How Ebola adapted to better infect and kill humans during the last outbreak
The Ebola virus mutated early on in the epidemic to become more infectious to humans.
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey rushed to hospital under police escort
This is the third time Cafferkey has been readmitted to hospital after contracting Ebola in Sierra Leone.
UK Ebola-infected nurse Pauline Cafferkey cleared of misconduct at NMC hearing
Cafferkey faced a disciplinary hearing for failing to declare temperature on return to UK
What is post-Ebola syndrome and what symptoms do survivors share?
Ebola survivors have to face series of complications described as post-Ebola syndrome.
Newly-identified SARS-like virus has potential to cause deadly outbreaks in humans
A virus, similar to SARS and found in the same hosts, could spread to humans.
Can you catch Ebola from a survivor? Risk 'very low' except through sexual transmission
A study shows that the Ebola virus does not remain long in the body, except in the semen.
Nigeria: Lassa fever kills 44 people with fears the outbreak is spreading
Government to appoint National Lassa Fever Action Committee as deaths reported in more than 10 states.
Ebola resurfaces in Liberia with 3 new cases
The country has twice been declared virus free only to see new cases reported.
Sierra Leone's FA president Isha Johansen: Meet Africa's most powerful woman in football
IBTimes UK inteviews the president of the Sierra Leone Football Association about sexism in football and ebola.
Teenage activist Abraham Keita: 'I am a victim of the bloody civil war in Liberia'
Liberian activist Abraham Keita won the International Children's Peace Prize aged 17.
Pauline Cafferkey: 25 close contacts given Ebola vaccine
Experimental vaccine given to 25 of the 40 confirmed to have had direct contact with Cafferkey.
Nigeria Ebola scare: 10 people quarantined as man dies in Calabar hospital
Nigeria was affected by the Ebola outbreak last year, but was declared free from the virus in October 2014.
Ebola: 700 in quarantine as Sierra Leone battles fresh outbreak
Quarantine follows death of an Ebola-stricken girl near the city of Makeni.
Sierra Leone: New Ebola death sets back efforts to beat epidemic
Woman's death is massive setback for the country's bid to gain Ebola-free status
Ebola: Liberia celebrates as WHO declares the nation clear
Liberians celebrated a day of Thanksgiving on Monday (11 May), just days after the country was declared free from Ebola.
Ebola: 2 military healthcare workers checked for virus in Sierra Leone due for UK return
The two workers came into contact with a military healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola.
WHO: Waning interest in Ebola is biggest threat to overcoming virus
Waning interest in Ebola could jeopardise efforts to stamp out the world's worst recorded outbreak of the disease.
Ebola crisis: Liberia discharges its last confirmed patient with no new cases
New milestone: Liberia has gone a week without reporting any new cases of Ebola.
Ebola crisis: MSF says it could exit Guinea if violent attacks against workers persist
Médecins Sans Frontières is considering cutting back its teams in Guinea amid brutal attacks.
Ebola Crisis: Red Cross workers attacked as virus conspiracies create panic in Guinea
EXCLUSIVE: NGOs claim false rumours are spread to fuel attacks against Ebola health workers.
Ebola: WHO approves breakthrough 15 minute test
The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the first rapid test for Ebola in a potential breakthrough for ending an epidemic that has killed almost 10,000 people in West Africa, it said on 20 February.
Ebola vaccine trials on 30,000 volunteers to begin in Liberia
More than 8,500 people have already lost their lives to Ebola.
Ebola Outbreak: UK military healthworker in 'needle-stick injury' evacuated from Sierra Leone
Female evacuated from Sierra Leone after being accidentally pricked by a needle while treating Ebola patients.
Ebola outbreak: Protective garment GoGown 'can drastically reduce hospital contamination risk'
Ginny Porowski invented GoGown to reduce contagion and waste disposal
Ebola outbreak slowing down: With only five confirmed cases in Liberia, life returning to normal
Getty Images photographer John Moore returns to Liberia as life begins to get back to normal.