It seemed like the number of people contracting Ebola in West Africa was on the decline. But now, officials say that trend has stalled, with dozens of new cases of the deadly virus reported so far this month.

The number of confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola in the current outbreak has surpassed 16,000, according to the World Health Organization, with nearly 7,000 deaths from those cases.The United Nations' health agency issued its latest numbers Friday, focusing on how Ebola has affected Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- the three countries where the vast majority of cases have occurred.

A group of migrants arriving on a Canary Islands nudist beach caused panic among naked holidaymakers when they reported having symptoms associated with Ebola.To the shock of nudist holidaymakers, the 19 migrants landed on the Gran Canaria beach of Maspalomas about 8.30am and were isolated for seven hours while authorities struggled to decide what to do.

As far as creative punishments go, this one is pretty good. Or bad. A video of a US couple telling their son he has Ebola as a joke has gone viral with nearly two million views in two days.But it's divided viewers over whether it's a hilarious joke or cruel trick to play on a child. In the brief clip, the mother, seen wearing a mask over her mouth and holding a thermometer, says: 'Look at his temperature!'She shows it to the father, who is off-camera, who immediately declares: 'Oh hell no! He got ...

Liberia has opened one of its largest Ebola treatment centers yet in Monrovia, bracing for a new wave of infections even as officials express hope the disease is on the decline.The World Health Organization said this week that the rate of infection in Liberia appears to be falling but warned that the response effort must be kept up or the trend could be reversed.Aid is now pouring into Liberia and other West African countries hard hit by Ebola. More than 13,700 people have been sickened by the disease, ...

A Nigerian drug mule has died in a Spanish airport after cocaine bags inside his body split by SelectionLinks">open - because airport staff refused to touch him fearing he had Ebola.The man collapsed in the customs area of the Madrid-Barajas airport outside the capital after arriving on a flight from Istanbul.Upon hearing that the man was from Nigeria, staff were too afraid to approach the man and left him in shivers on the airport floor.

North Korea has closed its borders to protect itself from the Ebola outbreak, a travel agent specialising in tours of the secretive nation has said.