The World Health Organization has a message for those trying to understand how the latest Ebola outbreak was contained so quickly: don't give the new vaccine all the credit. Compared to the 2013-2015 West African outbreak, which exploded into an epidemic that killed more than 11,300 people, the response to the latest flareup of the virus in the ...

The European Union proposed Tuesday financial incentives to member countries to admit migrants from Mediterranean rescue boats as part of efforts to defuse a weeks-long showdown with Italy. The proposals expand on those agreed at a fractious EU summit last month to respond to the decision by Italy's new populist government to turn away such vess ...

Nairobi, July 23, GNA - 39;Africa50 39;, a new investment platform, aims to speed up infrastructural development on a continent that is facing a shortfall of up to US$108 billion a year in funding for projects, the institution 39;s Chief Executive Officer, Alain Ebobisse, has told the Ghana News Agency (GNA). Africa needs to spend between US ...

A woman who survived Ebola in July 2014 may have infected her husband and two sons more than a year later, said a study Tuesday, highlighting the need for continued surveillance . The seeming virus flare-up killed one of the boys, a 15-year-old, according to research findings published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases medical journal. The ...