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Jane Goodall: To fix the environment, fix poverty | The Bottom Line
Legendary primatologist and environment activist says it’s time ‘to rethink our relationship with the natural world'.
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Rare Nipah virus disease resurfaces in India
Ten people there have died after being infected with the Nipah virus, a disease thought to be spread by fruit bats and other animals.
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Ebola's Lasting Stigma
Liberia's Ministry of Health says that Ebola is no longer a problem. But survivors suffer from neurological damage, and are treated as outcasts.
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World Health Organization says it has a vaccine against Ebola that's highly protective
Canadian scientists may have helped ensure West Africa's outbreak of Ebola is the last the world ever sees
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Ebola nurse critically ill again
Pauline Cafferkey emerged from isolation months ago as a survivor but today she is in critical condition
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A new fast, cheap test for Zika virus
Researchers at Harvard and the University of Toronto have developed a piece of paper that enables a cheap, fast test for the Zika virus.
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Obama's plea for Zika funding
U.S. president asks Congress for money: 'it is not something we need to panic about but it is something we have to take seriously'
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Ban Ki Moon tours Ebola-hit Africa
UN Secretary General pledges more international support to tackle the crisis and a Canadian team leaves for Sierra Leone to help contain the outbreak
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Ebola fight: Canada's command centre against disease
The National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg has developed a promising vaccine and experimental treatment called ZMapp
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Fighting Ebola door to door
Sierra Leone is battling fear and famine during the epidemic
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Ebola on the decline
The World Health Organization says fewer than 100 new Ebola cases were reported last week in the worst-affected countries
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WHO declares Liberia free of Ebola
The World Health Organisation has declared that Liberia is free of Ebola. It means the latest outbreak of the deadly disease is effectively over. The WHO said there have been forty two days without a new case being reported in the West...
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Dr. Anthony Fauci on battling COVID-19 in a divided U.S.
Ahead of his retirement, Dr. Anthony Fauci sat down with Adrienne Arsenault to talk about the challenges of giving COVID-19 health advice amid political divisiveness and rampant misinformation in the United States, and the threats of...
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Ebola spreads in Uganda as country waits for experimental vaccine
There is no known treatment for the new Sudan Ebola virus strain rapidly spreading in Uganda, but there’s hope an experimental vaccine could be going into arms in the next few weeks.
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Sierra Leone inflation: Residents struggle with high cost of living
In Sierra Leone, a steady rise in inflation is forcing many families to cut down on what they eat.
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Sierra Leone medical workers 'ready' for new Ebola outbreak
Medical workers in Sierra Leone say they are better equipped and more prepared for a repeat of an Ebola outbreak.
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Guinea: Mistrust thwarts Ebola vaccination effort
The UN delivered 36,000 Ebola vaccines to contain an outbreak in Guinea’s forest region, but only 3,000 doses have been administered so far. Ebola vaccination
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WHO to send over 11,000 Ebola vaccines to Guinea amid outbreak
The shots are expected to arrive on Sunday and the inoculation campaign could start on Monday.
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Guinea launches Ebola vaccination drive in country’s south
Inoculation campaign gets under way in Gouecke where several cases of the deadly disease have been detected.
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Guinea Ebola death toll rises to five as vaccine roll-out begins
Government tracking down people who potentially had contact with Ebola victims and will rush vaccines to affected areas.
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Canadian scientist sent deadly viruses to Wuhan lab months before RCMP asked to investigate
CBC News has learned that a Canadian researcher escorted out of Winnipeg's National Microbiology Lab over a possible policy breach also sent dozens of vials of deadly viruses to the controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology, four months...
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This week in the EU: Turkey tensions, Polish elections and vaccine politics
Ministers in Brussels kicked off the week with some tough talk on foreign policy, as they picked up some hot-button issues like relations with Turkey. Turkey tensions On the agenda in talks among foreign ministers was the long-standing...
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Liberia’s lessons from Ebola during COVID-19 pandemic
The National’s Adrienne Arsenault talks to former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf about the lessons Liberia and its people, who bore the brunt of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, can share about fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Drug designed for Ebola a potential treatment for COVID-19
Researchers say Remdesivir, a drug designed to treat Ebola, is showing promising results against COVID-19 but warn it’s too soon to say.