Ebola

BBC News host Nick Robinson was ridiculed by a nurse from Uganda after he asked her how she compared COVID-19 to Ebola....

ALTHOUGH the devastating damage of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo may now be eased, the path of destruction it has left within communities affected by the killer virus is now more prevalent than ever, a worrying survey has exposed....

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION (WHO) has said the Ebola virus has infected two more people in the Equateur province of the Democratic Republic of Congo....

THE Congo has announced a new Ebola outbreak in the western city of Mbandaka, adding to another epidemic of the virus that has raged in the east since 2018....

THE Democratic Republic of Congo's health minister has confirmed a new case of Ebola in the country's quateur province, which saw 33 people die in the 2018 outbreak. Is there a cure for ebola?...

SOME NHS patients suffering from severe coronavirus infections are to be treated with an anti-Ebola drug after trials proved it can speed their recovery, the Health Secretary announced last night....

CORONAVIRUS has been plaguing the world since it was first found in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Could the bole drug Remdesivir be used to treat COVID-19?...

EBOLA has continued to ravage some of the poorest nations on Earth and stark similarities between that disease and the ongoing panic of the coronavirus crisis have been exposed....

A DRUG first used to treat ebola, remdesivir, could effectively treat coronavirus patients according to early findings from a research study....

CORONAVIRUS is as deadly as Ebola for patients who are sick enough to be in hospital, an expert warned yesterday. A major study of almost 17,000 UK patients admitted in England, Scotland and Wales revealed that a third had died....

A DRUG used to treat Ebola patients has shown...

A NEW STUDY has found people with a BMI over 30 are more at risk of dying....

FEARS of a new wave of Ebola infections in eastern Congo mounted on Sunday after a patient escaped from a treatment centre, jeopardising efforts to contain the killer disease that has infected six people since last week....

THE deadly Ebola virus which claimed the lives of more than 10,000 people across Africa between 2014-2016 has re-emerged on the continent killing two individuals, sparking new fears of an outbreak of the disease....

AN ANTI-VIRAL drug used to treat Ebola has shown promising signs in clinical trials of curing patients with COVID-19, bringing hope to those stricken by the deadly virus....

A NAVY hospital ship which supported operations to curb the ebola outbreak could be used to treat coronavirus patients in the UK....

CORONAVIRUS is 'much, much worse' than the Ebola outbreak according to the man who helped discover the earlier disease....

A TERRIFYING new chart has been produced highlighting the rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus around the world - with Covid-19 even outpacing SARS, MERS and Ebola crises....

CORONAVIRUS was detected in Africa for the first time last week - but the continent has previously learned lessons from Ebola that could benefit the rest of the world....

CORONAVIRUS is being tackled head-on by Chinese drugmakers who have started mass-producing an experimental drug which was originally created to fight Ebola....

CORONAVIRUS has fast emerged as an urgent health concern in several countries after it was discovered in China last year, having infected nearly 3,000 people and killed at least 80 so far. How does the coronavirus compare to the Ebola and SARs epidemics?...

Congo's measles outbreak has killed 6,000 people in a year, the World Health Organisation has warned, but its severity has been overshadowed by the Ebola virus. Measles is a highly contagious disease caused by a virus that attacks mainly children....