The string of cases that recently ended Liberia's respite has grown to 6 with the death of a woman in a Monrovia hospital.
Meanwhile, about 200 health leaders are meeting in Cape Town this week to discuss global health security priorities.
The new Ebola disease cluster in Liberia probably was not sparked by an imported case.
In 2013 and 2014, high-containment laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) logged about a dozen power outages and airflow system failures that could have compromised safety, USA Today reported yesterday.
The problems were disclosed in a lab incident summary that the newspaper obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. They occurred between January 2013 and July 2014.
As an Ebola recovery conference opened, Oxfam reported on broken funding promises that followed other crises and disasters.
Liberia now has 5 cases, which are considered separate from activity that ended in May.
Experts favor an interim alert level and say launch of UNMEER didn't work well.
South Korea today reported its first confirmed MERS-CoV case in 5 days, in a nurse who works at Samsung Medical Center, the hardest-hit facility in the country's large healthcare-linked outbreak. The latest illness raises the total to 183.
Today the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the launch of a national center to help healthcare providers and facilities prepare for, transport, and treat patients with Ebola and other emerging disease threats, the agency said in a news release.
Officials are puzzling over how the boy who died contracted the virus, as at least two more cases surface.
