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The Nigerian national soccer team celebrates with the Africa Cup trophy after winning the final against Burkina Faso at the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, on February 10, 2013. (EPA/Nic Bothma)
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A health worker wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) stands outside UNICEF tents at an Ebola treatment center run by the non-governmental international organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders — MSF) in Monrovia, on October 27, 2014. (AFP)
Liberia opens new Ebola treatment center
Monrovia, AP—Liberia’s president opened one of the country’s largest Ebola treatment centers in Monrovia on Friday, remembering the days when “the dying, the sick, the dead who could not picked up on time” as officials hope the disease is on...Caption:
WHO Assistant Director General Aylward gestures during a news conference at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva. (Reuters)
WHO: Ebola decline in Liberia could be real trend
Dakar, AP—The rate of new Ebola infections in Liberia appears to be declining and could represent a real trend, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, but the epidemic is far from over. The disease is still raging in parts of Sierra Leone, Dr. Bruce Aylward, an...Caption:
Health workers walk toward an area used for Ebola quarantine in Kayes, Mali, on October 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)
US isolates troops, Australia slaps visa ban on Ebola-hit West Africa states
Washington and Sydney, Reuters—The US military has started isolating soldiers returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa, and Australia became the first rich nation to impose a visa ban on the affected countries amid global anxiety about the spread of the...Caption:
A health worker checks the temperature of a baby entering Mali from Guinea at the border in Kouremale, on October 2, 2014. (Reuters/Joe Penney)