Ebola virus disease

Some healthcare experts are bristling at the assertion by a top U.S. health official that a 'protocol breach' caused a Dallas nurse to be infected with Ebola while caring for a dying patient

Here are two good things about the Ebola virus. It is unlikely to mutate into a version that can spread through the air. And people who have been infected by Ebola cannot pass it on to others during the incubation period

Jovanka Kostovska, from Macedonia's Commission for Infective Diseases, said on Saturday that the results from the referent laboratory from Germany showed that the Briton Colin Jeffrey, whose death on Thursday triggered panic of Ebola outbreak, did not die of Ebola.

It is increasingly unlikely Ebola virus had caused the death of a British national in Macedonia, Macedonian news agency MIA reported on Saturday.

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.

BELGRADE - There are no ebola patients in Serbia, but if the disease appears, the Military Medical Academy (VMA) in Belgrade is prepared to face it, head of the VMA infective diseases ward Colonel Darko Nozic said on Friday.

Macedonia health authorities have downplayed earlier reports that a Briton who died in Skopje may have had the deadly Ebola virus, adding that no autopsy has yet been carried out.

The ebola threat, however real, is not imminent for Bulgaria, said the country's Chief Health Inspector Doctor Angel Kunchev for the BNT public broadcaster.

Ebola unlikely cause of death of British man in Macedonia

SKOPJE -- It is unlikely that the cause of death of a British citizen who died in Skopje on Thursday was Ebola, reports said today.

The 58-year-old most likely died of complications caused by alcohol poisoning, the Macedonian media said on Friday.