Clik here to view.
Sierra Leone Begins 3-day Ebola Lockdown
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone— Thousands of health workers began knocking on doors across Sierra Leone on Friday in search of hidden Ebola cases with the entire West African na1tion locked down in their homes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ebola Is Spreading Faster Than Efforts to Contain It
As the Ebola epidemic is claiming an increasing number of victims, there is widespread concern that efforts to contain it are inadequate. New and more effective measures are needed to combat one of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ebola Clinics Fill Up as Liberia Awaits Aid
MONROVIA, Liberia— Fourteen-year-old D.J. Mulbah set off at dawn with his mother and grandmother in desperate pursuit of a coveted bed at the Ebola clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Liberia’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clashes Break Out in Central African Republic Capital
BANGUI, Central African Republic—Clashes in Central African Republic’s capital have resulted in “many casualties,” the International Committee for the Red Cross said Thursday, marking the most...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ebola Threat Can’t Be Eliminated, Says Doctors Without Borders
CONAKRY, Guinea—Despite stringent infection-control measures, the risk of Ebola’s spread cannot be entirely eliminated, Doctors Without Borders said Friday after one of its doctors caught the dreaded...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ebola: More Calls for Travel Bans or Quarantines
WASHINGTON— The Ebola virus’s arrival in New York City and yet another West African nation — Mali — renewed questions about whether stricter travel restrictions would help lock down the deadly disease....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Maine Nurse Defies Ebola Quarantine With Bike Ride
FORT KENT, Maine— A nurse who vowed to defy Maine’s voluntary quarantine for health care workers who treated Ebola patients followed through on her promise Thursday, leaving her home for an hour-long...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Maine in Standoff With Nurse Over Ebola Safeguards
FORT KENT, Maine—Insisting she is perfectly healthy, nurse Kaci Hickox again defied the state’s Ebola quarantine Thursday by taking a bike ride with her boyfriend, and Maine health authorities...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WHO Issues New Guidance on Ebola Protective Gear
GENEVA— The U.N. health agency is updating its guidelines for health workers dealing with the deadly Ebola virus, recommending tougher measures such as doubling up on gloves and making sure the mouth,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NYC Doctor With Ebola Upgraded to Stable Condition
NEW YORK—A New York doctor who became infected with Ebola while treating patients in Guinea has been upgraded from serious but stable condition to stable condition, hospital officials said Saturday,...
View ArticleDoctors Without Borders Pulls Out of Somalia
NAIROBI, Kenya—The aid group Doctors Without Borders says it’s pulling out of Somalia after 22 years of work there because of attacks on its staff. Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French...
View ArticleDoctors Without Borders Expelled From Burma
YANGON, Burma—Doctors Without Borders said Friday it has been expelled from Burma and that tens of thousands of lives are at risk. The decision came after the humanitarian group reported it treated...
View ArticleDoctors Without Borders Says UN Puts South Sudan Refugees at Risk
JUBA, South Sudan—The aid group Doctors Without Borders says the United Nations South Sudan mission has refused to improve living conditions by moving to safer grounds 21,000 displaced people living at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Doctors Without Borders Call West Africa Ebola Epidemic ‘Out of Control’
DAKAR, Senegal—The Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa is “totally out of control,” according to a senior official for Doctors Without Borders, who says and the medical group is stretched to the limit...
View ArticleDoctors Without Borders Call Conditions in South Sudan ‘Affront to Human...
NAIROBI, Kenya—The aid group Doctors Without Borders says that residents in South Sudan living in a U.N. camp because of the fear of violence are enduring conditions that “are an affront to human...
View ArticleClik here to view.
World ‘Losing the Battle’ Against Ebola, Say Doctors Without Borders
UNITED NATIONS—The international group Doctor Without Borders warned Tuesday that the world is losing the battle against Ebola and lamented that treatment centers in West Africa have been “reduced to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ebola is Surging in Places it Had Been Beaten Back
CONAKRY, Guinea — Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there. The Macenta region, right on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Doctors Without Borders Says Time Running Out to Stop Ebola
DAKAR, Senegal—International efforts to stop the accelerating spread of Ebola in West Africa were ramping up Tuesday, but a medical charity warned that the response is still dangerously behind and time...
View ArticleClik here to view.
French Doctor Sick With Ebola in Liberia, Say Doctors Without Borders
MONROVIA, Liberia—Doctors Without Borders says one of its staff members has contracted Ebola while working in Liberia and will be evacuated to France. In a statement Wednesday, the medical charity said...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Response to Ebola Needs Flexibility, Experts Say
DAKAR, Senegal—Many beds are empty at newly opened Ebola treatment units in Liberia’s urban centers because the outbreak is now flaring in more rural parts of the country. In Sierra Leone’s capital,...
View Article
