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

Sierra Leone imposes quarantine on hundreds of people following a recent death from the Ebola virus.
2016-01-17

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 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 says that the death toll from the Ebola virus is over 2,900.
2014-09-26

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