TEHRAN (ISNA)- An Iranian scientist Pardis Sabeti along with a global team from Harvard University sequenced more than 200 additional genomes from Ebola virus samples, to capture the fullest picture yet of how the virus is transmitted and how it has changed over the long-term outbreak. Last June, in the early days of the Ebola outbreak in Western ...

[caption id="attachment_124858" align="alignright" width="163"] Chief of the United Nations Ebola mission Anthony Banbury[/caption] Chief of the United Nations Ebola mission Anthony Banbury says the task force does not have the resources necessary to defeat the epidemic. Banbury said during an interview with the state-funded BBC that more resources ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Chairman of the Health Commission of Iran's Parliament Hosseinali Shahriari said on Sunday that no Ebola case was found in the country. "The required measures have been taken. Laboratories have been equipped and required steps for preventing the virus entry to the country have been taken," he said. Ebola virus disease (EVD; also ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian health ministry official announced that a well-equipped hospital in Tehran is ready to deal with possible cases of Ebola in the country. A hospital in Tehran has been designated for the quarantine and treatment of possible cases of Ebola and countering the virus, Director General of Ministry of Healths Centre for Disease ...

[caption id="attachment_111695" align="alignright" width="192"] Doctors Without Borders' (MSF) medical workers disinfect the body bag of an Ebola victim at the MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on August 14, 2014.[/caption] UN agency says fatality rate at 70% and that a lot more people will die unless world steps up its response to crisis The ...

Comments by four prominent state officials, namely the heads of the three branches of government and the chairman of the Expediency Council, dominated the front pages of the Iranian papers on Thursday. President Rouhanis optimism about the eventual conclusiveness of nuclear talks with the world powers; Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijanis comments in opposition ...

[caption id="attachment_118558" align="alignright" width="222"] Obama speaks on Ebola. Right now everybody has the best intentions, but people are not putting in the resources that are necessary. Photograph: Behar Anthony/EPA[/caption] President says world cannot expect US to combat the virus alone, and expresses frustration at inaction from other ...

[caption id="attachment_116606" align="alignright" width="253"] A child looks at a man suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus, while holding his hand over his nose, in a main street and busy part in Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. A Western Kentucky University student has developed a way to track the Ebola virus outbreak. Armin Smailhodzic ...

[caption id="attachment_111695" align="alignright" width="223"] Doctors Without Borders' (MSF) medical workers disinfect the body bag of an Ebola victim at the MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on August 14, 2014.[/caption] Vaccine trials under way as experts fear disease could become endemic in worst-hit areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia Experimental ...

[caption id="attachment_112114" align="alignright" width="264"] Photo shows Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) medical workers wearing protective clothing work at the MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on August 14, 2014.[/caption] The Ebola outbreak in West Africa could spread to hundreds of thousands more people by the end of January, according to ...

[caption id="attachment_111116" align="alignright" width="235"] An agent of the national public health institute controls the temperature of a man at the airport, in Abidjan on August 12, 2014, as part of protective measures against the Ebola virus.[/caption] Washington (AFP) - US President Barack Obama will try to "turn the tide" on the Ebola epidemic ...

[caption id="attachment_116606" align="alignright" width="228"] A child looks at a man suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus, while holding his hand over his nose, in a main street and busy part in Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. A Western Kentucky University student has developed a way to track the Ebola virus outbreak. Armin Smailhodzic ...

[caption id="attachment_115002" align="alignright" width="240"] Health workers prepared to enter a high-risk ward at an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, run by Doctors Without Borders. Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times[/caption] London (AFP) - Britain is to set up a medical centre to treat victims of the Ebola epidemic in ...

[caption id="attachment_112114" align="alignright" width="216"] Photo shows Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) medical workers wearing protective clothing work at the MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on August 14, 2014.[/caption] Human trials underway aiming to prevent another outbreak of the virus which has swept through west Africa Hopes for an ...

[caption id="attachment_115002" align="alignright" width="227"] Health workers prepared to enter a high-risk ward at an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, run by Doctors Without Borders. Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times[/caption] A UN health official says at least 600 million dollars in aid would be required to combat the deadly ...

[caption id="attachment_110934" align="alignright" width="208"] AFP/CDC/AFP/File - This colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) obtained March 24, 2014 from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, reveals some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion[/caption] A British nurse infected with Ebola ...

[caption id="attachment_111695" align="alignright" width="220"] Doctors Without Borders' (MSF) medical workers disinfect the body bag of an Ebola victim at the MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on August 14, 2014.[/caption] More than 20,000 people may be infected with the Ebola virus before the outbreak in West Africa is controlled and curbing ...

[caption id="attachment_111695" align="alignright" width="262"] Doctors Without Borders' (MSF) medical workers disinfect the body bag of an Ebola victim at the MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on August 14, 2014.[/caption] TheDemocratic Republicof Congo said as many as 13 people have died of Ebola in the nations first outbreak in two years....

[caption id="attachment_111116" align="alignright" width="259"] An agent of the national public health institute controls the temperature of a man at the airport, in Abidjan on August 12, 2014, as part of protective measures against the Ebola virus.[/caption] Ebola has now claimed more than 1,000 lives and infected over a thousand more across West ...

[caption id="attachment_112114" align="alignright" width="255"] Photo shows Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) medical workers wearing protective clothing work at the MSF facility in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, on August 14, 2014.[/caption] Geneva, August 23, IRNA -- As Liberia continues to struggle with the largest and most complex outbreak of Ebola in history,...