UK Ebola patient gets test drug

BY ABDUEL ELINAZA, 29 APRIL 2014  ALLAFRICA.COM
Guangzhou — TANZANIA could be headed to a malaria-free country, thanks to Chinese medical research findings that target the disease-causing parasite itself instead of the mosquitoes which carry it. The current approach to deal with malaria is to control mosquitoes, which spread the disease by either killing them with insecticides or by draining bodies of stagnant water in which their larvae live.
However, Dr Li Guoqiao of the Guangzhou...

The first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the US, Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan, has died, a Texas hospital says.

A Uganda doctor who caught Ebola in Sierra Leone is flown for treatment in Germany.

The first British person to contract Ebola during the outbreak in West Africa has made a full recovery.

A British military healthcare worker who tested positive for the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone is being flown to the UK for treatment.

Sierra Leone releases its last known Ebola patient, according to the World Health Organization.

Guinea's last known Ebola patient is released from a treatment centre, raising hopes that the country will be declared free of the disease.

A hunt is launched in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, for a woman with Ebola who was forcibly removed from hospital by her relatives.

The recapture of an escaped Ebola patient in Liberia has raised fears that West African countries are struggling to contain the outbreak.