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The World Health Organisation confirms a second new case of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone.
2016-01-21

The World Health Organisation declares an end to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa with Liberia the last country to be declared free of the virus.
2016-01-14

The official death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak reaches 3,000 with the World Health Organisation warning that the official figures "vastly underestimate the true scale of the epidemic".
2014-09-27

The World Health Organisation states that the Ebola virus outbreak is an international public health emergency.
2014-08-8

The World Health Organisation reports that 932 have died from the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus with a man reportedly dying of the disease in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia after a business trip to Sierra Leone.
2014-08-6

Liberia closes schools and quarantines communities in order to stop the spread of the Ebola virus that has claimed 672 lives in West Africa.
2014-07-30

The World Health Organisation convenes an emergency meeting of health ministers from 11 countries in Accra, Ghana, to discuss ways of combatting the outbreak which has so far infected 763 people, leading to 468 deaths.
2014-07-2

Seven people are reported to have died from the latest outbreak of Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia.
2014-06-18

The World Health Organisation estimates that an outbreak of the ebola virus has killed more than 200 people in West Africa.
2014-06-6

Medical teams from the World Health Organisation and Doctors Without Borders arrive in Sierra Leone to deal with an outbreak of Ebola virus.
2014-05-29