West African cocoa production, which has faced two successive below-average harvests, is likely to see another 10% decline in ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is weighing whether to fund new Marburg and Sudan Ebola virus vaccines even as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overhauls the US immunization landscape, ...

As of 17 June 2025, there have been over 4,000 confirmed cases of mpox and 25 deaths in Sierra Leone, raising the possibility that the virus will spread to neighbouring countries and spark a larger ...

Monrovia, Liberia – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), through its West Africa Regional Coordinating Centre, in collaboration with the Economic Community of West ...

Scientists claim accident at US-funded biofacility may have caused 2014 West Africa outbreak The Ebola epidemic is believed to have come from a bat-filled tree in Guinea, but a new report says ...

News West Africa healthcare strained by Ebola, COVID outbreaks: WHO UN health agency says West Africa faces complex challenge of multiple outbreaks that could strain healthcare systems.

The Ebola epidemic of West Africa in 2014 was unprecedented in both scale and duration. This is an oral history of the virus as told by researchers and those who worked on the ground to contain ...

In the aftermath of the West Africa Ebola crisis, the World Bank leveraged more than $600 million to launch the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) Project to strengthen health ...

The Ebola outbreak across West Africa between 2013 and 2014 was devasting taking more than 11,000 lives in three countries. And yet, it could have been so much worse but for the heroic actions of ...

He is one of the tens of thousands of Ebola survivors who have been struggling to rebuild their lives since the virus struck West Africa in 2014. He was a single, carefree 25-year-old student when ...