Relatives angered by the death of a woman who gave birth at a hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo have stormed the facility which had Ebola patients.
Staff Writers
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the grip of the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record, with cases reaching 2011 and deaths hitting 754.
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has raised the death toll to 648 and the number of confirmed cases to 1830 in the Ebola outbreak.
New suspected Ebola cases have been reported in previously unaffected parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the government.
Australian researchers are part of a new study into tiny, dissolvable micro-needle patches that may one day be an alternative to traditional vaccine injections.
Annabelle Banfield
Officials say more than 120 passengers and crew on a Princess Cruises ship were infected with a stomach virus during a 20-day trip to Canada and Alaska.
Olga R Rodriguez
Clinical testing of two antiviral therapy approaches against Ebola is beginning in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organisation says.
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 1406 including 438 deaths, according to the latest data.
Christina Peters and Sammy Mupfuni
The World Health Organisation has urged calm after France reported a case of Ebola in a doctor who had returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Contact tracing remains a key issue for local authorities as confirmed cases of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo reach 1003, including 254 deaths.
Justin Kabumba and Constant Same Bagalwa
Authorities have pleaded for people to take Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak seriously as people gathered to mourn the death of an orphaned baby from the virus.
Justin Kabumba and Wilson McMakin
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say an armed group has removed a woman and her daughter from an Ebola health centre in the country's east.
Congo has reported 689 confirmed cases of Ebola and 136 deaths in an outbreak that has also spread to neighbouring Uganda, which has reported 19 cases.
Ammu Kannampilly and Emma Farge
The World Health Organisation says three laboratories in the Democratic Republic of Congo have run out of supplies to test for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola.
The death toll from an Ebola outbreak that began in eastern Congo has hit 100, as protests and armed conflict continue to hinder efforts to stop the outbreak.
Argentina is expanding its investigation into a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, sending teams to trap and test rats in Mendoza.
Isabel Debre
The World Health Organisation chief has announced a $US518 million six-month plan to fight Ebola, voicing optimism the outbreak can be contained.
Kenya's president has defended a planned US Ebola quarantine centre that's been delayed by a court and faced angry protests that left two people dead.
Humphrey Malalo, Edwin Okoth and Ammu Kannampilly
The Hondius cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak has been disinfected by Dutch health authorities and is headed for the Arctic, its owners say.
WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says while there's no vaccine or treatment for Ebola caused by the Bundibugyo virus, it can be survived with medical care.
Rhea Rose Abraham
The head of the World Health Organisation is visiting the centre of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo as Brazil probes a suspected case.
The head of the World Health Organisation is travelling to the Democratic Republic of Congo to oversee efforts to battle an outbreak of Ebola.
Ugandan authorities have ordered the closure of the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo as cases surge there of a rare type of Ebola.
Spain has reported a new case of hantavirus among the passengers who are in quarantine after the ill-fated cruise on the MV Hondius luxury liner.
Olivia Le Poidevin
