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DR Congo is declared Ebola-free
A three-month Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ended after claiming at least 49 lives.
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Google Donates $10 Million To Fight Ebola And Promises More
Google has launched a public giving campaign to fight Ebola. It’s matching every dollar donated through its campaign site with two dollars, up to a total of $7.5 million. In addition, the company is donating $10 million straight away to support non-profits including the International Rescue Committee, Medecins Sans Frontieres and Save The Children.
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Why Your Brain Wants To Help One Child In Need — But Not Millions
Why do people sometimes give generously to a cause — and other times give nothing at all? That's a timely question, because humanitarian groups fighting the Ebola outbreak need donations from people in rich countries. But some groups say they're getting less money than they'd expect from donors despite all the news.
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U.S. nurse, Maine settle Ebola quarantine suit
Maine has reached a settlement with a nurse who was briefly quarantined in her home after treating victims of Ebola in West Africa, allowing her to travel freely in public but requiring her to monitor her health closely and report any symptoms.
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Map: The Africa without Ebola
A frustrated scientist makes a map to set the record straight.
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Exposed
A few days after he accidentally stuck himself with a needle in an Ebola ward in Sierra Leone, Lewis Rubinson’s temperature topped 103 degrees. The fever swept in with a headache, muscle pain and nausea. And, soon after he arrived for care at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, it brought on the bone-shaking shivers doctors call rigors.
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Canada to stop processing visas from Ebola hot spots in West Africa
Canada will stop processing visa applications from foreign nationals who have visited West African nations with large outbreaks of the Ebola virus.
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US Nurses' Union Calls For Strike Over Ebola Gaps
A major US nurses' union on Thursday announced plans for nationwide strikes and protests next month over what they called hospitals' failure to protect workers against Ebola risks.
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Ebola Treatment Is Very Expensive
Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for the first person in the U.S. to have the virus, is now Ebola-free. Getting a clean bill of health took 13 days in the hospital and an estimated $110,000.
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After Nurse Defied Voluntary Ebola Quarantine, Maine Asks Court To Isolate Her
FORT KENT, Maine (AP) — A Maine judge has rejected a bid by state health officials to restrict the movement of nurse Kaci Hickox, who defied a quarantine for medical workers who have treated Ebola patients. Judge Charles C. LaVerdiere ruled ...
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Ebola, Other Filoviruses are at least 16 Million Years Old, Finds New Study | Genetics | Sci-News.com
Members of the Filoviridae, a family of viruses to which Ebola and its relative, Marburg virus, belong, are between 16 and 23 million years old.
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Ebola Cases Near 14,000 in Current Outbreak, WHO Says
The number of cases in the current Ebola outbreak neared 14,000, the WHO said, even as it suggested the rate of new infections in one of the hardest hit countries was slowing.
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‘I will go to court to attain my freedom’ – Maine nurse rejects quarantine over Ebola
The American nurse who is being quarantined against her will after returning from a mission in West Africa says she may sue officials in the state of Maine if they refuse to lift the restrictions they’ve imposed.
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The Grim Future if Ebola Goes Global
The biggest danger of Ebola is letting it spread unchecked in Africa. If we decide to detain people coming from Africa, it could deter health care workers from going there to treat the epidemic.
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Quarantined nurse slams state Ebola policy
Kaci Hickox, a nurse placed under mandatory quarantine in New Jersey, went on CNN on Sunday and criticized the "knee-jerk reaction by politicians" to Ebola, saying "to quarantine someone without a better plan in place, without more forethought, is just preposterous."
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States Toughen Ebola Quarantine Rules After NY Doctor Case
Some states to enforce quarantines for all travelers from West Africa.
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Doctor in New York City Is Sick With Ebola
Dr. Craig Spencer, who returned from Guinea last week, remains in isolation at Bellevue Hospital Center. Authorities are tracing anyone who might have come into contact with him recently.
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NY and NJ Say They Will Require Ebola Quarantines
The governors of New Jersey and New York on Friday ordered a mandatory, 21-day quarantine for all doctors and other arriving travelers who have had contact with Ebola victims in West Africa. The move came after a New York City doctor who returned to the U.S. a week ago from treating Ebola...
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Ebola Is 'A Plague Sent By God' To Punish Gays, Religious Leaders Claim
Leroy Ponpon doesn't know whether to lock himself in his flat in Monrovia because of the deadly Ebola virus, or because he is gay. Christian churches' recent linking of the two have made life hell for him and hundreds of other gays.
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Without Lucrative Market, Potential Ebola Vaccine Was Shelved for Years
Almost a decade ago, scientists from Canada and the United States reported that they had created a vaccine that was 100 percent effective in protecting monkeys against the Ebola virus. The results were published in a respected journal, and health officials called them exciting. The researchers said tests in people might start within two years, and a product could potentially be ready for licensing by 2010 or 2011.
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