Guinea

Health authorities on Monday said that a sailor on a ship bound from Guinea to the port of Piraeus who was reported to have been displaying possible signs of Ebola was not believed to be infected with the deadly virus that has claimed thousands of lives in West Africa.

A doctor said to be "extremely ill" after being infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone was being treated in the United States on Nov. 16, while the world's most powerful economies vowed to "extinguish" the deadly epidemic.
      

Global aid agency Doctors Without Borders said on Nov. 13 it would begin unprecedented trials within a month on Ebola drugs and blood from survivors using patients in west Africa.
      
The trials in Guinea are aimed at rushing out an emergency therapy to battle an epidemic which has taken more than 5,000 lives since December.
      

BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbia's first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, held a meeting on Wednesday with 15 Ambassadors of the group of African Arab countries in an effort to further strengthen Serbia's position in Arab countries, and improve bilateral relations with African partners.

The number of cases in the Ebola outbreak has exceeded 10,000, with 4,922 deaths, the World Health Organization says in its latest report.

Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are the three countries worst-hit by the deadly virus, with 10,114 people infected there and 4,912 deaths recorded.

A doctor who recently returned to New York from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive on Oct. 23 for the deadly virus, the first confirmed case in the city, officials said.
      
The 33-year-old -- identified by US media as Craig Spencer -- has been placed in isolation, in what is the fourth case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States and the first outside Texas.

The European Union put up 24.4 million euros Thursday in a "race against time" to find Ebola vaccines and treatments as deaths from the disease mount in the worst affected countries.
      

It was my destiny to come to Romania - says Ibrahima Keita, born in Guinea, who came to our country on a scholarship and remained here, fascinated with the beauty of the places. For 30 years, he worked as museographer at the Art Museum of Tulcea Municipality, having devoted most of his life to culture.

One public hospital, the Amalia Fleming in northern Athens, has been put on standby to deal with an Ebola outbreak in Greece while medical specialists have been dispatched to the country’s main entry points in a bid to contain possible arrival of the deadly disease, authorities said Friday.

BELGRADE - There is no Ebola in Serbia, and the health care system is ready to respond appropriately if the disease occurs, says Bojana Grgic, an epidemiologist with the Batut Public Health Institute in Belgrade.