Rapid sequencing of RNA/DNA from pathogen samples obtained during disease outbreaks provides critical scientific and public health information. However, challenges exist for exporting samples to laboratories or establishing conventional sequencers in remote outbreak regions. We successfully used a novel, pocket-sized nanopore sequencer at a field diagnostic laboratory in Liberia during the current Ebola virus outbreak.

New advanced satellite maps of tropical countries reveal that more than 90 percent of recent tree cover loss took place in natural forests rather than plantations, threatening ecosystems and biodiv

Dozens of people have died in Nigeria following a Lassa fever outbreak amid fears the death toll might increase.

The World Health Organization on Thursday, January 14 declared Liberia Ebola free for the third time.Making the declaration at the health ministry in the Monrovia suburb of Congo Town, the Country

Since October 2014 the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has been diminishing and efforts have shifted from emergency response to prevention and mitigation of future outbreaks.

The government of Liberia, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development Food and Enterprise Development program (USAID FED) has launched the Liberia seed, fertilizer

The European Union Ambassador to Liberia, Tiina Intelmann has announced that the EU will give Liberia 6 million Euro in support of the country's effort to implement its own strategic plan to mitiga

The second component of the Ebola Community Action Platform Project or ECAP-2 was launched in Tubmanville, Neekreen Administrative District of Grand Bassa County on Saturday, 12 December.

The first full-scale genomic analysis of the Ebola virus has been performed.

–Liberia’s Ministry of Health has confirmed the death of the 15 year-old who tested positive of the Ebola virus on Thursday in the Du-Port Road community in the northern Monrovia suburb of Paynesvi

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