Dozens of new ebola cases have erupted in Liberia along the border with Sierra Leone, officials have said.

A laboratory technician at the US public health watchdog is being monitored for possible accidental exposure to the Ebola virus that came during an experiment.

The United Nations has begun training Ebola survivors to help respond to the soaring number of cases in West Africa, because people who have lived through the experience are now immune to the disease, Unicef’s crisis communications chief said.

Four people with fever considered at risk for ebola were being tested in Spain yesterday for the virus, including one who arrived on an Air France jet that was isolated at Madrid’s airport as a precaution, officials said.

Fact is more frightening than fiction in this real Ebola crisis, says Max Brooks.

The death rate in the current Ebola outbreak has increased to 70%, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official has said.

The UN special envoy on Ebola says the number of cases is probably doubling every three to four weeks and the response needs to be 20 times greater than it was at the beginning of October.

The first person diagnosed with ebola in the US died yesterday as the government ordered five airports to screen passengers from West Africa for fever.

Frontline treatment units and prevention, surveillance, and contact tracing are critical in the war on ebola, and they need to be stepped up, says Dominic MacSorley of Concern

The parents of a US cameraman diagnosed with Ebola have said their son is in good spirits.

The airline passenger who brought Ebola into the US initially went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa, the hospital said.

A patient in a hospital in Dallas, Texas, has been confirmed to have the deadly ebola virus, a local news outlet reported last night.

At least 2,630 people have died in the worst outbreak of ebola virus in history, which has so far infected at least 5,357 people in West Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.

The UN is establishing an ebola crisis centre with a goal of stopping transmission in affected countries within six to nine months, the UN chief said, as the death toll from the outbreak surpassed 2,000 for the first time.

The United Nations is establishing an Ebola Crisis Centre with a goal of stopping transmission in affected countries within six to nine months, the UN chief said, as the death toll from the outbreak surpassed 2,000 for the first time.

Food in countries hit by ebola is getting more expensive and will become scarcer because many farmers will not be able to access fields, a UN food agency has warned.

Food in countries hit by Ebola is getting more expensive and will become scarcer because many farmers will not be able to access fields, a UN food agency has warned.

GAYVLOR AKOI, aged four and a half, has a mild fever. He sucks his thumb, looking listlessly out from the balcony over the zinc roofs of the houses below.

The past week has seen the highest increase of Ebola cases since the outbreak in west Africa began, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today.

The fight against Ebola has taken a promising leap forward after drug tests on monkeys with the deadly disease proved 100% successful.

Ebola still has the “upper hand” in the outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, but experts have the means to stop it, an American expert has said.

Liberian security forces have sealed off a seaside slum in the capital Monrovia in the latest effort to stop the spread of Ebola, setting off protests by angry residents.

Three Liberian health workers receiving an experimental drug to treat Ebola are showing signs of recovery, officials say.

Health officials in Liberia fear Ebola could spread through capital city Monrovia’s largest slum after residents raided a quarantine centre for suspected patients and took items including blood-stained sheets and mattresses.

Authorities in Liberia have opened a new centre to treat Ebola patients in the capital after the existing one became overwhelmed with patients.

Africans battling to contain the spread of ebola will have to wait for months until a potentially life-saving experimental drug used on two Americans infected with the dreaded disease would be manufactured, officials said.

Nigerian authorities rushed to obtain isolation tents in anticipation of more Ebola infections as they disclosed five more cases of the virus and a death.

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.

The Liberian government has said the bodies of all Ebola victims must be cremated as fears rose that the disease could be spread by burials in residential areas.

The deadliest recorded Ebola outbreak surpassed 700 deaths across West Africa as the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced dozens of new deaths reported in the last several days.

Liberia has announced the quarantine of a number of communities and the closure of schools across the country, the toughest measures yet imposed by a West African government in a bid to halt the worst Ebola outbreak on record.

No one knows just how many people Patrick Sawyer came into contact with the day he boarded a flight in Liberia, had a stopover in Ghana, changed planes in Togo, and then arrived in Nigeria, where authorities say he died days later from Ebola, one of the deadliest diseases known to man.

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.

An outbreak of Ebola has claimed almost 400 lives in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone this year, but isolating the sick and good hygiene can stop it dead, writes Alistair Short.

Fear, panic and denial are the lethal hallmarks of the response to the worst Ebola outbreak in decades. Without global action,its deadly march could even reach Europe, writes Michael Clifford.

Two men who live in Carrigaline have received notable appointments in the Naval Service, one as its boss and the other as captain of its newest vessel, LÉ Samuel Beckett, when it arrives in the spring.

The Irish soldier responsible for transferring African dictator Charles Taylor to the International Court in Hague to answer charges of war crimes was last night honoured with a civic reception to mark his retirement.

Three women have won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the importance of women’s roles in the spread of global peace, writes Bjoern Amland.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee used different tactics to confront thugs and killers in war-ravaged Liberia.

The ferocious wildfire burning north of Los Angeles has turned into a creeping giant, steadily chewing through thick and dry chaparral on its eastern flank.

Charles Taylor will begin his defence today against charges that he led rebels in Sierra Leone who murdered, raped and mutilated villagers in a brutal terror campaign during the country’s civil war.

Disputes over land ownership and property boundaries are threatening to undermine Liberia’s fragile peace, according to findings from a six-month survey released today.