[caption id="attachment_89408" align="alignright" width="200"] Iran's Health Minister Seyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Health Minister Seyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi declared Iran as an Ebola-free nation, and rejected reports of suspicious cases of the deadly disease in the Northeastern parts of the country. "The news ...

[caption id="attachment_151643" align="alignright" width="218"] Iran's health ministry official Mahmoud Soroush[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian health ministry declared the country as an Ebola-free nation, dismissing reports of suspicious cases of the deadly disease in Iran. "There has been no suspicious case of Ebola infection in Iran,"Mahmoud ...

[caption id="attachment_143043" align="alignright" width="170"] Health workers and military personnel are seen at the Kerry Town Ebola treatment center on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone, November 13, 2014.[/caption] The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the three hardest-hit West African countries has exceeded 8,000, the World Health ...

[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 ...

Irans President Hassan Rouhani describes terrorism as a disease more dangerous than the Ebola virus, expressing Tehrans readiness to help contain the threatening phenomenon. The diseases of terrorism and extremism are much more dangerous that the Ebola disease, President Rouhani said at a meeting with the Belgian Ambassador to Iran Francois del Marmol ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani who had last year warned against the imminent threat of the spread of radicalism and violence in the world, stressed that terrorism and extremism are more dangerous than the spread of Ebola. "The disease of terrorism and extremism is more dangerous than Ebola and the only way to fight this threat ...

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 ...

Tehran, Oct 23, IRNA Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education Hassan Qazizadeh-Hashemi said on Thursday that since Ebola is likely to enter Iran, a special laboratory has been equipped to check the epidemic. He told reporters on the sidelines of meeting of chancellors of medical sciences universities that the lab can be used for emergency ...

[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 ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Passengers in the Iranian northeastern city of Mashhads airport get through the laser fever-screening instrument as part of measures to identify travelers infected with Ebola or coronavirus, a medical official announced.   While a spike in Ebola cases and warnings of ponential spread have caused serious concerns in many countries,...

Two top stories were under the Iranian newspaper spotlight on Monday. The response by Vice-President for Supervision and Strategic Affairs Mohammad Bagher Nobakht to those who had questioned government stats about economic growth was splashed across the front pages of dailies. Drawing as much attention was the repeal by the UK of an asset freeze on ...

Kerman, Oct 4, IRNA All preventive measures have been adopted and there should be no worry about the possibility of Iranian Hajj pilgrims acquiring of Ebola disease, or the Chronavirus, said Health, Remedy, and Medical Training Minister Hassan Qazizadeh. Dr. Seyyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi made the comment on the sidelines of visiting Kermans Martyr ...

[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 ...