William Osler Health System’s Brampton Civic Hospital is currently testing a patient who recently traveled to Canada from Nigeria and presented with symptoms including fever, headache and malaise. This...

I have been covering the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak from the beginning when “suspected” cases were first reported in Guinea this past February, both on this website and on The Global...

The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Nigeria, the latest country to report the virus, has increased to 13, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO) today. Of the 13 cases reported...

The reality of life in this second decade of the 21st century is that disease threats that once were local, can now spread globally in a matter of hours or days.  Vast oceans and prolonged travel times...

In response to the earlier statement released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) where the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa was described as an “extraordinary event”...

In a press conference after U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Wednesday, United States President Barack Obama answered a question concerning the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, that the World Health Organization...

The first meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) [IHR (2005)] regarding the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD, or “Ebola”)...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is rapidly increasing its ongoing efforts to curb the expanding West African Ebola outbreak and deploying staff to four African nations currently affected:...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued today new case definitions for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) for health care providers. Person Under Investigation (PUI) A person who has both consistent...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has verbally confirmed they have modified the full clinical hold placed on Tekmira Pharmaceutical’s TKM-Ebola Investigational New Drug Application (IND) to...