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.

Latest updates on the Ebola outbreak: New Zealand is "not immune" to the arrival of the deadly Ebola disease, Prime Minister John Key says.

A Cairns nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone has tested negative.

A Spanish nurse sick with Ebola repeatedly reported her symptoms to health authorities but was fobbed off with paracetamol before a final diagnosis.

The leaders of three Ebola-stricken West African nations are meeting heads of the UN, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to discuss the outbreak.

A 57-year-old Cairns woman is being tested for the deadly Ebola virus, Queensland health authorities have confirmed.

Unicef New Zealand has launched an emergency appeal for urgently needed financial support in the fight against the rapid spread of the Ebola virus.

What makes the Ebola virus so terrifying is not its kill rate or its exponential growth. It's the fact that it threatens humanity by preying on humanity.

After the double blow that two of their children had been diagnosed with the same cancer, a courageous Rotorua family hopes they have now beaten the disease.

The leading scientists have launched an attack on "Big Pharma", accusing drugs giants of failing to manufacture a vaccine, because there was "no business case".

Sierra Leone's proposed countrywide 'lockdown' will not help control an Ebola outbreak and could lead to the disease spreading further as cases are concealed, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) claimed today.

Disturbing video footage shows an Ebola victim who'd escaped from hospital walking through a Monrovia market, sending hundreds fleeing in fear.

Former cop and convicted rapist Brad Shipton has a rare and aggressive form of dementia.

A New Zealander who arrived back in the country this week from Liberia - where an Ebola outbreak has killed almost 600 people - says he is shocked there was no testing as he passed through New Zealand Customs.

Cancer patient Samantha France dreams of going to Europe on a school trip as part of her history studies.

Three-year-old Denon Andrew is losing his sight.

ASpanish priest became the first European to die of the Ebola virus yesterday, as the World Health Organisation authorised the use of experimental drugs to fight it.

New Zealand border officials intend screening anyone arriving from West African countries afflicted by the deadly Ebola virus, which has claimed almost 1000 lives since March.