The new Ebola disease cluster in Liberia probably was not sparked by an imported case.
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.
The new case involves a 17-year-old boy whose illness wasn't detected until he died, which is bad news for outbreak containment.
The first field trial of a rapid, point-of-care test for Ebola infection found that it was as accurate as conventional lab methods, which in outbreak settings can take days to get a result. A research team from Harvard Medical School, Partners in Health (PIH), and Boston Children's Hospital published its findings yesterday in The Lancet.
Guinea and Sierra Leone report 20 new cases, and 3 health workers are infected.
