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President Obama Convenes Emergency Ebola Meeting at White House
The United States must monitor Ebola in a "much more aggressive way," President Obama said today, also noting that he has directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to send a rapid response team - which he described as a medical "SWAT team" - within 24 hours when someone is diagnosed.
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Ebola Is Airborne, University Of Minnesota CIDRAP Researchers Claim
Ebola is airborne, according to a new report by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota. Researchers at the university just advised the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that “scientific and epidemiologic evidence” now exists that proves Ebola has the potential to be transmitted via exhaled breath and “infectious aerosol particles.”
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Obama cancels trip to N.J. to deal with response to Ebola
President Obama has canceled his planned trip to New Jersey to deal with the federal response to Ebola
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Nurses at Dallas hospital describe poor safety measures with Ebola victim
Nurses at a Texas hospital where a Liberian man died of Ebola described a confused and chaotic response to his arrival in the emergency room, alleging in a statement Tuesday that he languished for hours in a room with other patients and that hospital authorities resisted isolating him.
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Ebola death toll 'rises to 4,447'
The death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak has risen to 4,447, with the large majority of victims in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
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The Owner of Ebola.com Is Trying to Cash In
Jon Schultz bought Ebola.com in 2008. Now he wants at least $150,000 for it.
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Mark Zuckerberg gives $25M to fight Ebola
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are giving $25 million to the CDC Foundation to help fight the Ebola epidemic.
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Canadian Ebola vaccine begins testing
Human testing of an experimental Canadian-made Ebola vaccine began Monday, with federal officials saying the drug could be shipped to West Africa within months if it proves successful. Health Minister Rona Ambrose said the launch of the vaccine's first clinical trial marks a promising step in the global campaign to contain the virus, which the World Health Organization says has killed more than 4,000 people, mostly in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
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Suspected New York Ebola Cases Don’t Actually Have Ebola
The New York Daily News reported Monday that two city residents were hospitalized with symptoms similar to those of the Ebola virus, but those claims were quickly dismissed.
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Ebola’s Fear Factor
“This epidemic won’t be over soon,” Michael Specter writes, “but that is even more reason to focus on what works.”
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U.S. Needs to Rethink Ebola Infection Controls Says CDC Chief
The case of a Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for a dying Liberian patient shows that the United States needs to rethink how it addresses infection control.
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Ebola threatens chocolate
Ebola is threatening much of the world’s chocolate supply. Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producer of cacao, the raw ingredient in M&M’s, Butterfingers and Snickers Bars, has shut down its borders with Liberia and Guinea, putting a major crimp on the workforce needed to pick the beans that end up in chocolate bars and other treats just as the harvest season begins.
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Here Are All The Times Doctors Without Borders Tried To Warn Us About Ebola
When it comes to Ebola, it's not that the international community wasn't warned, it's just that nobody was paying attention. In the nearly seven months since the Ebola outbreak was originally confirmed in Guinea, the NGO Doctors Without Borders has been pleading for the world to act. Doctors Without Borders was the first and one of the only organizations on the ground in West Africa through the initial outbreak and subsequent epidemic.
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Three Russian Ebola vaccines ready within six months: Moscow
Russia expects to produce three Ebola vaccines within the next six months, Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said on Saturday.
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UK expects 'handful' of Ebola cases
The UK should expect a "handful" of Ebola cases in the coming months, the chief medical officer has said. Defending a screening programme due to start at key airports and stations, Dame Sally Davies said it was a "blunt instrument" but would save lives.
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Officials Admit a ‘Defeat’ by Ebola in Sierra Leone
Acknowledging a major “defeat” in the fight against Ebola, international health officials battling the epidemic in Sierra Leone approved plans on Friday to help families tend to patients at home, recognizing that they are overwhelmed and have little chance of getting enough treatment beds in place quickly to meet the surging need.
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Experts warn of ‘Ebola suicide bombers’
Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) could turn themselves into Ebola “suicide bombers” against the Western world, terrorism experts have warned.
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How you can and can't get Ebola
As Ebola spreads from West Africa to isolated cases in Europe and the United States, so too do rumours and myths about how the disease is transmitted - many of them perpetuated on social media.
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Ebola Test Negative For Dallas County Deputy
A test to detect whether a Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputy has the deadly Ebola virus has come back negative, according to state health officials.
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Airline Cabin Cleaners Strike Over Ebola Exposure Fears
Nearly 200 airline cabin cleaners walked off the job at a New York City airport overnight, striking over health and safety issues that include fears over possible exposure to Ebola. The protest involves Air Serv cabin cleaners in Terminal D at New York’s LaGuardia airport, a contractor that serves Delta, as well as supporting workers from LaGuardia and JFK International airports.
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