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Ebola deaths in Liberia are ‘far higher than reported’ as officials downplay...

The true death toll from the Ebola epidemic is being masked by chaotic data collection and people’s reluctance to admit that their loved ones had the virus, according to one of west Africa’s most...

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Only the military can get the Ebola epidemic under control: MSF head

Sophie Arie talks to MSF’s president, Joanne Liu, about her frustrations at the slow international response to the Ebola epidemic Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the humanitarian medical charity, has...

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Ebola Front-Line Doctors at Breaking Point

At 3:30 a.m. in the world’s biggest Ebola treatment center, Daniel Lucey found the outbreak reduced to its essentials: patients lying on mattresses on the floor and vomiting in the dark, visible only...

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MSF warns Liberia Ebola ‘progress’ could be illusory

Global aid agency Doctors Without Borders urged caution on Thursday (Oct 30) over claims of a slowdown in infections in Ebola-hit Liberia, saying the apparent drop could be due to poor management of...

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S.Leone Ebola outbreak ‘catastrophic’: aid group MSF

Ebola has wiped out whole villages in Sierra Leone and may have caused many more deaths than the nearly 5,000 official global toll, a senior coordinator of the medical aid group MSF said Friday. Rony...

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S.Leone Ebola outbreak ‘catastrophic’: aid group MSF

Barcelona (AFP) – Ebola has wiped out whole villages in Sierra Leone and may have caused many more deaths than the nearly 5,000 official global toll, a senior coordinator of the medical aid group MSF...

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Ebola crisis: ‘we are still being outpaced by epidemic,’ MSF head tells MPs

The Ebola epidemic is still outstripping efforts to contain it, according to doctors from Médecins Sans Frontières who have mounted most of the early response in west Africa. Speaking to MPs from the...

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Sierra Leone News:MSF, Kingtom receives first two Patients

Despite work is still in progress, the medical charity Medicine’s Sans Frontier (MSF) yesterday received its first two cases of Ebola infected persons, at its new treatment centre at the Prince of...

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World’s largest Ebola unit dismantled as outbreak retreats

A potent symbol of the nightmare enveloping west Africa at the height of the Ebola outbreak, the ELWA-3 treatment centre is being dismantled and incinerated bit by bit as the region emerges from...

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Liberia declared Ebola-free, but outbreak continues in neighbouring Sierra...

Liberia has been declared free from Ebola after 42 days without a new case, the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)  has said. However, it has urged vigilance until the worst-ever recorded...

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