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Jane Halton, chair of CEPI, was in the room with the world’s health chiefs when WHO rang its most serious alarm about the Ebola outbreak in west Africa.

The Australian at the forefront of the fight against Ebola – and the next pandemic

Ebola is at the centre of a plan to prepare for disease X – the next global pandemic.

  • Angus Dalton

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Health workers disinfect their path after handling the corpse of a person thought to have died of Ebola in the DCR.

Brazil monitors patients for Ebola as travellers return from Africa

The virus is also being detected across a widening swath of the DRC’s conflict-hit east as health authorities struggle to trace exposed contacts and determine the true scale of the epidemic.

  • Rhea Rose Abraham
Djakisa Christian, 18, sells coffins at his shop in Bunia in the Democreatic Republic of the Congo.

‘Every hour making coffins’: Funeral wakes banned as WHO lifts Ebola threat to ‘very high’

There are now 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths, and one senior official has described the effort to stop the rapid spread as “a race against the clock”.

  • Justin Kabumba and Monika Pronczuk
Health workers prepare disinfection at a Congolese treatment centre.

US-bound plane diverts to Canada over Ebola alert

The US has imposed restrictions on flights from regions linked to the outbreak, as a Congolese treatment centre is burnt down amid growing anger over the health crisis.

  • Rob Gillies
Health workers are at particular risk from exposure to the bodily fluids of ebola patients.

What to know about the new Ebola outbreak that quietly raged for weeks

Health officials are racing to contain a rare strain of the disease that spread under the radar in Africa.

  • Nancy Lapid
This undated colourised transmission electron micrograph file image made available by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention shows an Ebola virus virion.

WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak. This rare variant has no approved treatments

There are more than 300 suspected cases and 87 deaths in the Congo and Uganda so far.

  • Disha Mishra and Akanksha Khushi
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Hugh Taylor and Fred Hollows on the road in 1977.

Fifty years ago, these men set out to defeat an insidious disease. A fortnight ago, they did

Fred Hollows was a true mentor and teacher. Following his example, on April 29, Australia finally defeated the world’s leading infectious cause of preventable blindness.

  • Hugh Taylor
‘Hantavirus’ passengers arriving at Bullsbrook Centre for National Resilience, Bullsbrook.

Hantavirus pilots to fly home after one night of quarantine with passengers

The charter pilots escorted the passengers from their virus-infected cruise ship to Australia and voluntarily quarantined with them on Friday night.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
ighteen passengers linked to the outbreak are currently being monitored for hantavirus, with most remaining asymptomatic and in quarantine primarily at the National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska, while two others are being monitored at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. The one passenger who tested positive is being treated in a biocontainment unit in Nebraska. The decisions will be made later on whether the asymptomatic passengers should complete quarantine in a medical facility or at home.

Hantavirus cruise ship passengers touch down in Perth

Six passengers from a cruise ship struck down by the hantavirus have touched down in Perth after the government secured a plane to fly them back from the Netherlands on Thursday night.

  • Holly Thompson
The Dutch-flagged vessel is returning to its home port in the Netherlands for deep cleaning.

Modern-day fever ship requires calm and commonsense

The hantavirus outbreak is cause for caution, not panic.

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