With summer nearing, mosquitoes will soon be a common annoyance. So why do they like human blood?

Parliament was hit with an Ebola scare late this afternoon just hours after a similar incident at the Herald’s head office in Auckland.

A giant pink condom has been erected in Sydney’s Hyde Park as part of a campaign to promote HIV awareness.

Auckland Hospital has devised a 91-point checklist for Ebola safety.

Green MP Steffan Browning has been stripped of one of his portfolios after he suggested homeopathy could be trialled for curing Ebola.

The chief of the WHO is blaming profit-driven companies for not finding an Ebola vaccine.

Thousands of New Zealand multiple sclerosis sufferers will gain a greater sense of normality with the funding of two revolutionary drug treatments from tomorrow.

Green MP Steffan Browning says lending his support to a call for the use of homeopathic remedies to combat the Ebola epidemic was 'probably pretty unwise'.

He lurches towards me across the space between the kitchen bench and the dining table.

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says three people arriving in NZ from West Africa have been cleared of Ebola after temperature monitoring.

All her son wanted to do was hold her hand. But like most Ebola victims, Dr Stella Adadevoh died without a loved one to comfort them in the dreadful final hours.

Some 67,000 people could be dead from Ebola by December in just one city in Liberia, according to a new analysis of the rate at which the disease is spreading.

It took less than a week after arriving in Hawaii for me to believe I was going to die from Ebola or be wiped out by a hurricane.

The United States has tightened restrictions on travellers arriving from the West African countries gripped by an Ebola outbreak, funnelling them into five airports with extra health checks.

Cruise lines are putting strict new screening tests on passengers boarding ships around the world - including New Zealand - because of fears over Ebola.

It was supposed to be an escape to the Caribbean sunshine for a week of parties, relaxation and sipping champagne. Instead Ebola crashed the party.

The World Health Organisation bungled efforts to halt the spread of Ebola in West Africa, an internal report revealed Friday.

Clinical head of infectious diseases says hospital has spent the past three months getting prepared in case an infected person turned up in New Zealand.

Whistleblower details poor hygiene and total lack of preparation, Belize bans cruise ship carrying colleague

The second infection of a United States healthcare worker who treated the country's first Ebola patient has exposed a series of gaps in its preparedness.

Australia can't deploy health workers to the Ebola outbreak in west Africa because other countries are refusing to guarantee suitable evacuation and treatment if any become sick.

Kiwis shouldn’t feel “overly worried” about the threat to New Zealand of the deadly disease Ebola, Prime Minister John Key says.

Kevin Bacon has returned to his Footloose roots for a new social media campaign aimed at raising awareness about the deadly Ebola virus.

Nurses at the Texas hospital where a Liberian Ebola patient died last week complain they were given few rules and little guidance on how to treat the severely ill man.