British nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, is “showing signs of improvement and is no longer critically ill”, the Royal Free Hospital in London said.

An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola in November while working in Sierra Leone has been declared cured and discharged from hospital in Rome.

The Government is to provide an additional €778,000 in aid to Sierra Leone in response to the Ebola outbreak.

The British nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone has agreed to be treated with an experimental anti-viral drug and blood from a survivor of the virus, her doctor has said.

The International Monetary Fund has announced €237m package to help fight ebola in west Africa.

Blood tests are expected to be made public today which will reveal whether a man in Belfast has contracted Ebola.

The World Health Organisation has released a 17-page manual detailing how to safely bury people who have died from Ebola.

An Italian businessman who sparked Ebola fears on board an Aer Lingus flight has been spared a prison sentence after he told a judge he had made a charitable donation.

A nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa said she plans to end her voluntary US quarantine and even stepped outside her home briefly.

A US nurse who is in isolation after treating Ebola patients in west Africa says she is prepared to go to court if the state tries to quarantine her.

A US nurse who was quarantined after working in West Africa with Ebola patients is being released, officials said.

The World Health Organisation says the number of people believed to have Ebola has risen above 10,000.

Alarmed governors of New Jersey and New York have ordered a mandatory, 21-day quarantine of all medical workers and other arriving airline passengers who have had contact with victims of the deadly Ebola disease in west Africa.

Screening of passengers from areas at high risk of Ebola is being rolled out to Gatwick's North terminal today.

The World Health Organisation has declared Nigeria free of Ebola.

The British nurse who survived Ebola will begin his second spell treating people infected by the deadly virus after returning to the country where he caught the infection.

The Canadian government is to start shipping its experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organisation on Monday for possible use in the West African countries hardest hit by the outbreak.

The UN health agency has officially declared an end to the Ebola outbreak in Senegal.

Four people suspected of having Ebola in Spain have tested negative in a first round of tests.

Two of four new patients suspected of being infected with Ebola in Spain have tested negative in a first round of tests, authorities have said.

Barack Obama has conceded it "may be appropriate" to choose an Ebola "tsar" to lead the US response against the disease.

Three people who are feared to have contracted Ebola are being tested in Spain for the virus, including one who arrived on an Air France jet that was isolated at Madrid’s airport as a precaution.

Emergency services in Madrid are said to be treating a man with a suspected case of Ebola, after he landed on a plane at the city's airport.

The European Union has promised to reinforce passenger screening for Ebola at airports in the hardest-hit West African nations and coordinate a common approach for the deadly virus at EU entry points.

Ireland is ramping up its preparations against Ebola, the health minister Leo Varadkar has said.

An Air France plane has been isolated at Madrid airport due to a suspected case of Ebola.

Ireland is to step up its preparations to deal with any threat from the Ebola virus here.

The Dáil's Health Committee is to hear this morning what preparations are in place to deal with any threat from Ebola here.

President Barack Obama vowed his administration would respond in a “much more aggressive way” to cases of Ebola in the United States.

US health officials are alerting airline passengers who were on the same flight as a Texas nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola the following day.

A second US health care worker has tested positive for Ebola, Texas officials have revealed.

A Liberian Ebola patient was left in an open area of a Dallas hospital for hours, the largest US nurses’ union has said.

A US nurse who caught Ebola while treating a Liberian patient who died of the disease has received a plasma transfusion donated by a doctor who beat the virus.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $25million (€19.73m) to the CDC Foundation to help address the Ebola epidemic.

An international member of the United Nations' medical team who was infected with Ebola in Liberia has died despite "intensive medical procedures", a German hospital said today.

A flight from Dubai has been quarantined at Boston Logan Airport after five passengers began "exhibiting flu-like symptoms".

The Texas nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for a dying Liberian man repeatedly visited his room from the day he was admitted to the intensive care unit until the day before he died, medical records show.

Aid agency Goal has hit out at the Government’s decision not to send Irish troops to assist in containing the ebola crisis in west Africa.

AC Milan midfielder Michael Essien has been forced to deny social media rumours that he has Ebola.

The Ebola outbreak is “the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times”, the World Health Organisation has said.

Teams of workers have been sent in to clean the Texas apartment block where a US nurse lives, following her Ebola diagnosis.

Healthcare experts in the US are criticising a top official for saying a "protocal breach" caused a Dallas nurse to be infected with ebola, while caring for a dying patient.

A US healthcare worker who provided hospital care for an Ebola patient who later died has tested positive for the virus and is in a stable condition.

Considering the deadly nature of ebola, the killer disease now sweeping through west Africa, the sheer courage of people currently applying to join Goal in the fight against the epidemic is nothing short of astonishing.