Two military healthcare workers who were in close contact with a servicewoman diagnosed with Ebola have returned to the UK for monitoring but are not showing any signs of the disease.

At least 50 Ebola hotspots remain in the three hardest-hit west African countries, but new cases are declining and the deadly disease will be defeated, the United Nations’ Ebola chief has said.

A 26-year-old Indian man who was cured of Ebola in Liberia has been placed in isolation at the New Delhi airport after traces of the virus were found in his semen, India’s Health Ministry says.

Authorities in Sierra Leone said yesterday that another doctor there has tested positive for ebola, marking a setback for efforts to keep desperately needed health care workers safe in the West African country ravaged by the deadly virus.

More than 5,000 additional healthcare workers are needed to fight Ebola in the three most affected countries in West Africa, the president of the World Bank has said.

A woman who arrived in New Jersey on a flight from west Africa has tested negative for Ebola in a preliminary test.

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.

New rules will come into effect in the United States today for people travelling from west African nations hit hardest by Ebola.

There are no immediate plans to stage a national ebola exercise here after the system was tested for the first time yesterday by a suspected case of the deadly virus.

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.

President Barack Obama appointed an ebola tsar for the US, and the government said a Texas health worker who may have had contact with specimens from an ebola patient was isolated on a cruise ship.

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.

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

The World Health Organisation did not act decisively when the ebola outbreak in West Africa was confirmed in March.

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.

Enhanced screening for ebola will begin at Britain’s biggest airport today as prime minister David Cameron insisted "vigorous steps" were being taken to prevent the deadly virus reaching the UK.

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

Health officials in Australia have confirmed a 57-year-old woman is being tested for Ebola after returning to the country from Sierra Leone.

A British humanitarian worker in Sierra Leone has told of the country’s desperate bid to contain the deadly Ebola virus, as NHS staff prepare to travel to Africa to help tackle the outbreak.

The African Union is to send medical support teams to the West African countries affected by Ebola for a six-month mission.

Sierra Leone will impose a four-day nationwide "lockdown" this month in a bid to contain the spread of the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola.

THERE’S good news on the wildlife front; BirdWatch Ireland has announced that terns nested very successfully on the east coast this summer. The numbers breeding ‘are at an all-time high’, says tern expert Dr Steve Newton.

Health chiefs are awaiting blood test results today on a suspected Ebola case in Donegal after a man who recently returned from Africa died suddenly.

Medics suspect a man found dead in Donegal was infected with the deadly Ebola virus while working in Africa, the HSE has said.

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

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Scientists studying the lethal ebola virus say they have found how it blocks and disables the body’s ability to battle infections in a discovery that should help the search for potential cures and vaccines.

Liberia is facing an excruciating choice – deciding which handful of Ebola patients will receive an experimental drug that could prove either life-saving or life-threatening.

A leading physician in Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola has died from the disease, an official said.

A leading physician in Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola has died from the disease, an official said.

Liberia said it would treat two infected doctors with the scarce experimental ebola drug ZMapp, the first Africans to receive the treatment, while authorities in Spain said a priest had died of the disease.

As police in Britain continue their probe into the enslavement of three women — one Irish — for 30 years, support groups here have urged greater focus on the potential of slavery in this country.

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Armed men ambushed and killed seven United Nations peacekeepers trying to protect villagers in Ivory Coast.

ARMED pirates raided a tanker off the west African coast and kidnapped 23 sailors yesterday, sailing off with the vessel in waters increasingly at risk of piracy.

AUTHORITIES in Kenya have seized the tusks of 58 elephants — totalling one ton of ivory — after sniffer dogs led investigators to containers at the country’s main airport that were bound for Nigeria.

More than one in 10 people around the world are obese – double the number in 1980, research has shown.

MORE than one in 10 people (11.8%) around the world are obese — double the number in 1980, research has shown.

Fears are growing that serious violence will soon break out in the west African country of Ivory Coast.

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Search teams today found the wreckage of a small plane that disappeared over the weekend carrying 11 people including one Irish man, a spokesman for Cameroon’s government said.

OVER the last five years, one province in Nigeria has consistently cropped up when Ireland’s human trafficking problem is being addressed.

Officials in Sierra Leone say at least 200 people have been killed in a cave-in at an unofficial gold mine.