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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 World Health Organization declares that the outbreak of the Ebola virus has ceased in Liberia after weeks of no cases there.
2015-05-9

The World Health Organisation appoints Dr Matshidiso Moeti of Botswana as its new Africa chief as the death toll from the virus passes 5,000.
2014-11-5

The World Health Organisation declares Senegal to be free of the Ebola virus.
2014-10-17

The World Health Organisation estimates that the death toll from the outbreak has passed 4000 with all but nine deaths occurring in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
2014-10-10

Three people in Mali, which has had no cases, are injected with an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus, the first such trial in Africa.
2014-10-10

The United States will send thousands of troops to West Africa to build Ebola virus clinics and train health workers.
2014-09-16

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

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