Ebola virus

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.

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 International Olympic Committee (IOC) has banned athletes from west African countries affected by the deadly Ebola virus from competing in some events at the Youth Olympics, starting in China this weekend.

Albania is recovering from false Ebola alarm after police detained 38 Eritrean immigrants in a mountainous area and arrested two suspected traffickers on Tuesday.

A panel of medical experts has determined it is ethical to provide experimental treatments to patients infected with the deadly Ebola virus, the World Health Organization said Tuesday as the global death toll topped 1,000.         

As the world scrambles to stem the rapid spread of the killer Ebola virus, the World Health Organization hosted a meeting on Monday to discuss the ethics of using experimental drugs.
      

There is a “very low” risk of the deadly Ebola virus reaching Greece but experts here have been monitoring the outbreak, the Hellenic Center of Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) said on Friday.