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First British Ebola patient is being flown home for treatment
The first British national to contract the Ebola virus is being flown back home on an RAF jet, the Department of Health has confirmed. The unnamed patient, who was working as a healthcare specialist in Sierra Leone, will stay in a high-level isolation unit (HLIU) at a hospital in north London.
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Sierra Leone makes hiding Ebola patients illegal
Sierra Leone has passed a new law imposing possible jail time for anyone caught hiding an Ebola patient — a common practice that the World Health Organization believes has contributed to a major underestimation of the current outbreak.
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The Dread Factor: Why Ebola And 'Contagion' Scare Us So Much
The Ebola outbreak has set off an alarm around the world. Public health leaders say the intense concern is appropriate, given the unprecedented size of the outbreak and the deadliness of the virus.But experts say the outbreak has also produced a lot of unfounded fears. Even just the word Ebola is kind of terrifying.
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Man Cured Of Ebola With Experimental Drug: 'Today Is A Miraculous Day'
An American doctor who contracted Ebola while treating victims of the deadly virus in Liberia has been discharged from an Atlanta hospital after treatment with an experimental drug.
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US doctor recovers from Ebola
WASHINGTON, USA: Dr. Kent Brantly, an American doctor who was treating Ebola patients in Liberia (as a part of a Samaritan’s Purse mission), got infected by the virus and was subsequently airlifted to USA for treatment. Brantley, 33 who was undergoing specialized treatment at Emory University...
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'I Am Thrilled To Be Alive': American Ebola Patients Released From Hospital
he two U.S. patients who were treated for Ebola have been discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where they had been in an isolation ward since returning from Liberia early this month. They are the first patients treated for Ebola on American soil. Dr. Kent Brantly and missionary Nancy Writebol have been released after "a rigorous course of treatment and thorough testing," Emory's Dr. Bruce Ribner said. He added that he's confident that their release from care "poses no public...
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Growing Unrest Sets Back Liberia's Ebola Fight
Authorities in Liberia urgently searched on Monday for 17 people who fled an Ebola medical center over the weekend when it was attacked by looters who stole blood-stained sheets and mattresses and took them into an enormous slum. Health officials were combing Monrovia's West Point area that is home to at least 50,000 people to try to stop the virus from spreading further in a country where more than 400 people already have died.
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Millionaire Buys 4,000 Bottles of Holy Water to Fight Ebola
Sierra Leone just got a big gift from a strange man. To help the West African country fight the escalating Ebola crisis, Nigerian Christian preacher Temitope Joshua says he has sent the Sierra Leone government 4,000 bottles of his patented holy anointed water and $50,000 in cash in a private jet, which also cost $50,000 to charter.
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Nigeria sacks 16,000 doctors in midst of rising Ebola concerns
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan reportedly (link is external) fired 16,000 resident doctors this week, causing concern as the country fights a number of Ebola cases. The government also reportedly (link is external) suspended the residency training programme in federal hospitals, citing the need to better address challenges currently facing the health sector.
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Ebola virus ruled out for patient in Dublin hospital
A Dublin hospital had restricted access to the patient as they investigated Ebola as a possibility – they have now cleared him.
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Some Chinese Netizens Actually Think Ebola Creates Zombies
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First Use of Ebola Vaccine Appears at Least a Month Away
A vaccine that could help protect medical workers as they fight Ebola in West Africa, even just after contamination, may take at least a month to be available as global officials weigh its safety.
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Canada to donate own Ebola vaccine to WHO for use in Africa
Canada will donate a small quantity of an experimental Ebola vaccine developed in its government lab to the World Health Organisation for use in Africa, the country's health minister said on Tuesday. The decision to donate the vaccine came after the WHO said that it was ethical to offer untested drugs to people infected by the virus.
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Man Quarantined In NYC Ebola Scare Speaks To CBS 2 In TV Exclusive
The man at the center of an Ebola scare at Mount Sinai Hospital last week spoke out Sunday, calling the experience of being quarantined until he was medically cleared “surreal.” Eric Silverman, 27, tested negative for the deadly Ebola virus on Wednesday.
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Clinical trial to start soon on GSK Ebola vaccine
A clinical trial of an experimental vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus is set to start shortly, according to British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, which is co-developing the product.
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Tracing Ebola’s Breakout to an African 2-Year-Old
Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak, researchers suspect, was a 2-year-old boy who died on Dec. 6, just a few days after falling ill in a village in Guéckédou, in southeastern Guinea. Bordering Sierra Leone and Liberia, Guéckédou is at the intersection of three nations, where the disease found an easy entry point to the region.
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Mystery patient in New York City's Ebola scare recounts 72 anxious hours of being quarantined at hospital
Eric Silverman, a 27-year-old Brooklyn grad student who returned from Sierra Leone in July, is the man who was quarantined at Mount Sinai Medical Center after complaining of symptoms all too familiar to Ebola victims. In an exclusive interview with the Daily News, Silverman recalls waking up to people wearing 'space suits,' being isolated from his worried family, and having his boxers incinerated as a precaution against infected bodily fluids.
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US bots flagged Ebola before outbreak announced
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is focusing a spotlight on an online tool run by experts in Boston that flagged a "mystery hemorrhagic fever" in forested areas of southeastern Guinea nine days before the World Health Organization formally announced the epidemic.
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The Ebola Virus Outbreak (Infographic)
The 2014 Ebola outbreak is an epidemic of the Ebola virus disease that started in West Africa. The virus has spread to the Republic of Guinea, the Republic of Liberia and the Republic of Sierra Leone. This outbreak is the most severe in the recorded history in terms of both the number of cases and fatalities.
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Barack Obama: Ebola drug 'not ready' for use in Africa - Telegraph
US President not confident drug is ready to use in the heart of the outbreak, despite signs it may be helping two Americans
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