New Delhi:  Days after an Indian national was quarantined at the Delhi airport after traces of the virus were found in his samples, the Health Ministry today has added seven more airports for screening for the disease. Apart from the 18 airports already under screening, the government today added Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, Gaya in Bihar, Vizag in Andhra Pradesh, Nagpur in Maharashtra, Bagdora in Assam and two other airports, Health Minstry sources...

  GENEVA, Nov 21 (Reuters) – The death toll in the Ebola epidemic has risen to 5,459 out of 15,351 cases identified in eight countries by the end of Nov. 18, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The figures showed an increase of 39 recorded deaths and 106 new cases since those issued on Wednesday. “Transmission remains intense in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone,” the WHO said, referring to the hardest-hit...

Leaders of the United Nations and the World Health Organization expressed new alarm on Friday about Ebola’s tenacity in Africa and in particular its potential to ravage a fourth country, Mali, where they said hundreds of people had been exposed to an infected cleric who died last month. At a webcast news conference from the World Bank offices in Washington, the United Nations’ secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and the W.H.O.’s director general,...

Overview of the training course: As part of a comprehensive and coordinated response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, CDC has developed an introductory training course for licensed clinicians (e.g., nurses, physicians and other healthcare providers) intending to work in an Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) in Africa. This course will take place in the United States. The primary purpose of the course is to ensure that clinicians intending to...

CONAKRY, Guinea – It was a highway robbery but the bandits got more than they bargained for when they stopped a taxi in Guinea and made off with blood samples that are believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus. Authorities publicly appealed on national radio Friday to the unidentified robbers to hand over the samples that were stolen from the taxi during its 265-kilometre (165-mile) trek on winding rural roads from the central Kankan...

  (CNN) — Ebola has officially been eradicated from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization declared Friday, even amid fresh concerns about the deadly virus in places like Sierra Leone and Mali. The United Nations health agency cleared the DRC for Ebola because 42 days had passed since tests came back negative on the last person with the disease and there have been no other cases since…  (read more...

The University of Maryland Medical Center has been one of the international leaders in getting a vaccine tested in humans around the world, and 20 of those test patients live in the Baltimore area. The Center for Vaccine Development at the UMMC School of Medicine in downtown Baltimore is currently one of five places in the world where a vaccine developed by the National Institutes of Health and GlaxoSmithKline is being tested in humans… (read...

GENEVA, Nov 19 (Reuters) – The toll in the Ebola epidemic has risen to 5,420 deaths out of 15,145 cases in eight countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, with transmission of the deadly virus still “intense and widespread” in Sierra Leone. The figures, through Nov. 16, represent a jump of 243 deaths and 732 cases since those issued last Friday, and cases continue to be under-reported, the WHO said in its...