Health minister dismisses Ebola infection in Northeastern Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Health Minister Seyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi declared Iran as an Ebola-free nation, and rejected reports of suspicious cases of the…
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Health ministry: No Ebola case seens in Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian health ministry declared the country as an Ebola-free nation, dismissing reports of suspicious cases of the deadly disease…
Ebola kills 8,153 people in 3 West Africa states: WHO
The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the three hardest-hit West African countries has exceeded 8,000, the World Health Organization (WHO)…
UN lacks resources needed to fight Ebola
Chief of the United Nations’ Ebola mission Anthony Banbury says the task force does not have the resources necessary to defeat the…
No Ebola case found in Iran
TEHRAN (ISNA)- Chairman of the Health Commission of Iran’s Parliament Hosseinali Shahriari said on Sunday that no Ebola case was found in…
Terrorism, extremism more dangerous than Ebola: Rouhani
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani describes terrorism as a “disease” more dangerous than the Ebola virus, expressing Tehran’s readiness to help contain the…
Iranian president: Terrorism, extremism more dangerous than Ebola
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani who had last year warned against the imminent threat of the spread of radicalism and violence…
Official: Iran fully prepared for any possible case of Ebola
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian health ministry official announced that a well-equipped hospital in Tehran is ready to deal with possible cases…
Minister: Ebola likely to enter Iran
Tehran, Oct 23, IRNA – Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education Hassan Qazizadeh-Hashemi said on Thursday that since Ebola is likely…
WHO warns 10,000 new cases of Ebola a week are possible
UN agency says fatality rate at 70% and that ‘a lot more people will die’ unless world steps up its response to…
Iran starts Ebola airport screening
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Passengers in the Iranian northeastern city of Mashhad’s airport get through the laser fever-screening instrument as part of measures…
A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Oct. 6
Two top stories were under the Iranian newspaper spotlight on Monday. The response by Vice-President for Supervision and Strategic Affairs Mohammad Bagher…
Minister: No worry about Iranian pilgrims’ Ebola, Chrona acquiring
Kerman, Oct 4, IRNA – All preventive measures have been adopted and there should be no worry about the possibility of Iranian…
Obama admits ‘we’re not moving fast enough’ to stop Ebola spread
President says world cannot expect US to combat the virus alone, and expresses frustration at inaction from other countries Barack Obama warned…
Ebola death toll Is more than 2,900, W.H.O. says
GENEVA — The number of people killed by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has reached at least 2,917, driven by the…
Ebola epidemic: experimental drugs to be rushed to Africa
Vaccine trials under way as experts fear disease could become endemic in worst-hit areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia Experimental drugs…
Ebola worst-case scenario has more than 500,000 cases
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa could spread to hundreds of thousands more people by the end of January, according to an…
Obama sends 3,000 troops to W.Africa to ‘turn tide’ on Ebola
Washington (AFP) – US President Barack Obama will try to “turn the tide” on the Ebola epidemic Tuesday by ordering 3,000 US…
4th doctor dies of Ebola in Sierra Leone
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone has lost a fourth doctor to Ebola after a failed effort to transfer her abroad…
Britain to set up Ebola centre in Sierra Leone
London (AFP) – Britain is to set up a medical centre to treat victims of the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, the…
Hopes raised as Ebola vaccine protects monkeys for 10 months
Human trials underway aiming to prevent another outbreak of the virus which has swept through west Africa Hopes for an effective Ebola vaccine have…
$600 million needed to tackle Ebola outbreak: UN
A UN health official says at least 600 million dollars in aid would be required to combat the deadly Ebola outbreak ravaging…
British Ebola victim discharged from hospital
A British nurse infected with Ebola while working in Sierra Leone was discharged from a London hospital on Wednesday after recovering from…
Ebola cases may surpass 20,000, WHO says in updated plan
More than 20,000 people may be infected with the Ebola virus before the outbreak in West Africa is controlled and curbing the…
Ebola kills 13 in Congo outbreak separate from W. Africa
The Democratic Republic of Congo said as many as 13 people have died of Ebola in the nation’s first outbreak in two years. The…
Ebola: life and death on the frontline
Ebola has now claimed more than 1,000 lives and infected over a thousand more across West Africa. Clair MacDougall meets families, survivors,…
WHO says working with Liberia to intensify Ebola response
Geneva, August 23, IRNA — As Liberia continues to struggle with the largest and most complex outbreak of Ebola in history, the…
Smell of Ebola lingers as health workers fight disease
Ebola has a specific smell, says Sebastian Stein, a medical worker in Sierra Leone. While he can’t really describe it, he can…
Ebola kills 84 in three days: UN
The Ebola virus killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, the World Health Organization said…
African Union pledges $1 million to combat Ebola spread
The African Union (AU) Commission has pledged $1million to support global efforts to to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. “The…
Ebola epidemic to take six months to control: MSF
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders says the Ebola epidemic is moving faster than authorities can handle and it could…
Guinea declares Ebola outbreak health emergency
Guinea has declared a deadly outbreak of Ebola in the country a “health emergency” as West Africa awaits arrival of experimental vaccines.…
Tehran hospital ready to deal with Ebola cases
A hospital in Tehran has been designated as a site for the quarantine of suspected Ebola infection cases. ILNA reports that the…
Canada to donate experimental Ebola vaccine
Canada is to donate 800 to 1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organization (WHO) for use in…
Global Ebola death toll tops 1,000: WHO
The Ebola virus has killed 1,013 people and infected another 1,848, latest World Health Organisation data showed. The fatalities include 52 deaths…
Ebola drug supply is exhausted after doses sent to Africa
The Ebola drug given to two Americans and a Spanish priest has been sent to a West African country that requested it,…
Ebola crisis in Liberia brings rumours, hygiene lessons and hunger
As aid workers offer health advice on the streets, residents fear emergency measures are starving the capital of supplies Another day has…
Ebola outbreak is health risk to other nations, WHO says
The worst Ebola outbreak on record is an “extraordinary event” and a public health risk to other countries, the World Health Organization…
U.S. ignored ravaging Ebola until Americans got sick
The U.S. and Europe ignored Africa’s raging Ebola outbreak until two American aid workers fell ill, a top official at a nonprofit treating…
Early to send Ebola drug to Africa victims: Obama
US President Barack Obama has said it was premature to send experimental drugs to Ebola victims in Africa. He said affected countries…