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Love in the time of Ebola: How sex is keeping the outbreak alive
International health officials are calling for survivors to abstain from intercourse for 90 days after they recover
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Sierra Leone’s Rich and Powerful Are Breaking the Ebola Burial Rules
And it's putting everyone at risk.
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Liberia Quarantines an Area Where New Ebola Case Appeared
Liberian authorities on Tuesday quarantined two households after the corpse of a 17-year-old boy was found with Ebola, sparking fears the West African country could face another outbreak of the disease nearly two months after being declared Ebola-free. "Liberia has got a re-infection of Ebola," Tolbert Nyenswah, deputy health minister and head of Liberia's Ebola response team, told The Associated Press.
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Did the Ancient Greeks Get Ebola?
A new paper from Dr. Powel Kazanjian theorizes that the famous Plague of Athens was caused by the same virus that has decimated West Africa in recent years.
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Why Ebola Won't Go Away In West Africa
Over the past few months, case tallies have dipped toward zero, only to bounce back up. Health officials worry the outbreak could never end if people keep hiding cases and dead bodies.
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North Korea Claims It Has Cure for MERS, Ebola and AIDS
North Korea says it has succeeded where the greatest minds in science have failed. The authoritarian, impoverished nation better known for pursuing a nuclear program despite global criticism announced Friday a drug that it said can prevent and cure MERS, Ebola, SARS and AIDS.
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Ebola is found in doctor's eye months after virus left blood
For the first time, Ebola has been discovered inside the eyes of a patient months after the virus was gone from his blood.
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Yes, We Were Warned About Ebola
Crucial evidence of the virus's presence in Liberia was overlooked.
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Military's Ebola Vaccine Tests Safe
Months of clinical trials have shown a military-supported Ebola vaccine to have 'robust' effectiveness to stop future outbreaks.
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Fighting cancer and Ebola with nanoparticles
Dr. Thomas Webster of Northeastern University, in Boston, is applying nanotechnology research to the battle against cancer and Ebola
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Ebola: the race to find a cure
The Long Read: In October, scientists set out to do something that had never been done before – conduct a drugs trial during an epidemic to find a treatment for a lethal disease. Could they make history and change the way we deal with outbreaks?
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Limited airborne transmission of Ebola is ‘very likely,’ new study says
A team of prominent researchers suggested Thursday that limited airborne transmission of the Ebola virus is "very likely," a hypothesis that could reignite the debate that started last fall after one of the scientists offered the same opinion. "It is very likely that at least some degree of Ebola virus transmission currently occurs via infectious aerosols generated from the gastrointestinal tract, the respiratory tract, or medical procedures, although this has been difficult to definitively...
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Ebola - in perspective
From the Davos 2015 summit, some sobering facts about the human impact of Ebola in Africa but what the problems facing the continent really are.
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First Ebola boy likely infected by playing in bat tree
The Ebola victim who is believed to have triggered the current outbreak - a two-year-old boy called Emile Ouamouno from Guinea - may have been infected by playing in a hollow tree housing a colony of bats, say scientists.
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Glasgow Healthcare Worker Diagnosed With Ebola
Scottish nurse who has become the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the UK is being transferred to London for specialist medical care, according to Sky sources. The woman returned to Scotland after a spell working in Sierra Leone and arrived at Glasgow Airport on a British Airways flight at around 11.30pm on Sunday.
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Lessons From an Outbreak: How Ebola Shaped 2014
Experts weigh in on what to take away from the devastation of the disease.
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The Best Christmas present is that Given to Others
Found a blog on the best charities to support this Christmas. Quite sweet. Enjoy!
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Ebola Vaccine Passes First Human Trial
The first human trials of a vaccine against Ebola have been successful, but it will be months, at best, before it can be used to stem the outbreak in West Africa. The origins of the vaccine go back more than a decade. A chimpanzee cold virus was modified to carry Ebola genetic material conferring protection against the Zaire strain of Ebola. This was shown to be effective in monkeys, although the benefits wore off with time.
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The US Is Stockpiling Ebola Survivors' Plasma to Treat Future Patients
On Friday, the FDA announced that it would start developing a stockpile of blood plasma from Ebola survivors, treated with a pathogen inactivation system that's never been used before in the US. So far, the United States has had some amazing success in curing Ebola, possibly thanks to experimental plasma treatments. Drawn from survivors, the stuff comes enriched in antibodies that could help to fight off the disease—but it also has the potential to carry other diseases, like malaria...
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Cost to Treat Ebola: $1 Million For Two Patients
It cost more than $1 million to treat two patients sent to the University of Nebraska’s Medical Center, the hospital’s chancellor said Tuesday. And it’s still not clear who will pay the bill and how. It’s the first on-the-record estimate of what it’s cost to treat Ebola patients in the United States. So far, 10 people have been treated on U.S. soil — most recently, Sierra Leonean Dr. Martin Salia, who died Monday in Nebraska.
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