World Health Organization: Ebola cases could hit 20,000
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as are known now, the World Health Organization said Thursday as the United States announced plans...
View ArticleBiggest Ever Weekly Rise in Ebola Cases
The West African Ebola outbreak took a more deadly turn Friday with the World Health Organization announcing an estimated 500 new cases this week — the biggest jump in infections so far. Most of the...
View ArticleEbola outbreak racing out of control, officials say
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is “racing ahead” of efforts to control it, and controlling the epidemic will cost at least $600 million, world health officials said Wednesday. The number of people...
View ArticleNo More Places To Put Ebola Patients In Liberia But Cases Are Growing...
There is not a single empty bed available for an Ebola patient in Liberia right now, but thousands more cases are expected in the coming weeks. Entire families have been driving around in taxis...
View ArticleHow deadly is Ebola? Statistical challenges may be inflating survival rate
The Ebola virus that is causing the raging epidemic in West Africa is famously lethal. In previous outbreaks it has killed as many as 90% of the people it infects. That’s why the figures in World...
View ArticleWorst-ever Ebola outbreak, by the numbers
Number of countries with cases: 5 (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Senegal) Number of cases as of Sept. 16: 4,985 Number of deaths as of Sept. 16: 2,461 Number of new cases, Sept. 7-12: 394...
View ArticleIs It Wise For Obama To Send Thousands Of U.S. Troops Into The Ebola Death Zone?
When there is a major problem somewhere in the world, Barack Obama loves to show that he is “doing something” by sending a contingent of U.S. troops to the affected area. But is it really wise for...
View ArticleThe Pure Hell At The Heart Of The Ebola Pandemic In Africa Could Soon Be...
Did you know that the number of Ebola cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone is approximately doubling every 20 days? People are dropping dead in the streets, large numbers of bodies are being dumped into...
View Article82 percent of Ebola patients are being turned away from hospitals to die at...
A lack of available hospital beds in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three countries at the epicenter of the worst Ebola outbreak in history, is leaving many families with nowhere to take their...
View ArticleThe Spread: Here’s Where People Are Being Tested for Ebola (with Results)
Over 114 people have now been or are currently being tested for Ebola in the U.S. With all of the myriad rumors and potential cases of Ebola out there, it’s important to remember that not every single...
View ArticleThe ominous math of the Ebola epidemic
When the experts describe the Ebola disaster, they do so with numbers. The statistics include not just the obvious ones, such as caseloads, deaths and the rate of infection, but also the ones that...
View ArticleEbola Cases Rise Sharply In Western Sierra Leone
After emerging months ago in eastern Sierra Leone, Ebola is now hitting the western edges of the country where the capital is located with dozens of people falling sick each day, the government said...
View ArticleEbola Death Toll Could Actually Be Three Times Higher Than Reported
At least 4,877 people have died in the world’s worst recorded outbreak of Ebola as of Oct. 19, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, but the true toll may be three times as much. At...
View ArticleMissouri Doctor: Ebola Cases Being Covered Up – Patients Bleeding From Every...
(YT) Are health authorities covering up the true extent of the Ebola crisis in America? Alex Jones talks with a Doctor from Missouri who says that not only is Ebola here, but it is being covered up...
View ArticleThere are now more than 10,000 Ebola cases in eight countries
The number of people infected with the Ebola virus has passed 10,000, with 4992 deaths, according to the World Health Organisation, as the United States announced its ambassador to the United Nations...
View ArticleReported Ebola cases jump 30 percent in just four days
The World Health Organization says the number of reported Ebola cases has surpassed 13,700, a jump of more than 30% since the last numbers were released four days ago. Dr. Bruce Aylward, assistant...
View ArticleThe number of Ebola cases rise sharply in Sierra Leone
The number of new cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone has jumped dramatically, putting paid to any hopes that the infection rate is slowing. Official figures released by the minister of health and...
View ArticleEbola Cases Now Above 15,000 WHO Says
The outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa reached 15,351 cases in what is the worst oubreak of the disease in history, new figures from the World Health Organisation show on Friday. There have...
View ArticleEbola spreading intensely in Sierra Leone, global toll rises – WHO
The death toll from the Ebola epidemic has risen to 6,070 out of 17,145 cases as of Nov. 30, and the virus continues to spread intensely across Sierra Leone, the World Health Organization (WHO) said...
View ArticleSierra Leone seeing 80-100 new Ebola cases daily
Sierra Leone said Friday that between 80 and 100 new cases of Ebola are being reported every day and the country now hardest-hit by the deadly virus desperately needs over 1,000 beds to treat victims....
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