A US doctor who survived after contracting Ebola while doing missionary work in Liberia has told how he feared he would die.

A member of staff from the US Centers for Disease Control who worked in close proximity to someone infected by the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa has been flown back home to Atlanta by charter jet to monitor potential symptoms, officials said.

Dr Kent Brantly, one of few Ebola survivors with medical expertise, has pleaded for help for countries still struggling with the virus.

Two American aid workers discharged from hospital after being treated for the deadly Ebola virus pose no public health risk, says a US doctor.

The US doctor who was successfully treated after contracting the Ebola virus has today spoken of his relief.

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A toddler known as ‘patient zero’ who died before Christmas is believed to be the first victim who sparked the ebola crisis.

The World Health Organisation urged nations worldwide to help stop the spread of Ebola as it declared the outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency.

Hopes of finding a treatment for the deadly ebola virus have shifted to a small California-based biotech company whose experimental drug has been used to treat two American missionary workers.

The husband of a second American aid worker recently diagnosed with Ebola has said his wife is weak but showing signs of improvement.

The second American aid worker recently diagnosed with Ebola in west Africa was en route to Atlanta today after a customs and refuelling stop in Maine.

The doctor who treated a man who flew to Nigeria and died of Ebola has now contracted the disease, authorities said.

Hundreds of troops have been deployed in Sierra Leone and Liberia under an emergency plan to fight the worst outbreak of the deadly ebola virus, which has killed more than 826 people across West Africa.

An American aid worker infected with the deadly ebola virus while in Liberia was being treated at an Atlanta hospital in a special isolation unit yesterday.

An American doctor is receiving intensive medical treatment in Liberia after he was infected with the deadly Ebola virus while treating patients in the West African nation, a spokeswoman for an aid organisation said.

A US doctor working with Ebola patients in Liberia has tested positive for the deadly virus.