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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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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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Why is this the worst ever outbreak of Ebola?
The current Ebola epidemic has killed more people than any previous outbreak, and has hit medics particularly badly. A World Health Organisation briefing explains why...
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Gene studies of Ebola in Sierra Leone show virus is mutating fast
Genetic studies of some of the earliest Ebola cases in Sierra Leone reveal more than 300 genetic changes in the virus as it leapt from person to person, changes that could blunt the effectiveness of diagnostic tests and experimental treatments now in development, researchers said on Thursday.
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Ebola outbreak could lead to food crisis, U.N. says
The Ebola health crisis threatens to turn into a much broader "food crisis" in some of the world's most impoverished countries, according to the United Nations' World Food Program.
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Genetic Clues to Spread of Ebola
Scientists have tracked the spread of Ebola in West Africa, revealing genetic clues to the course of the outbreak.
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Ebola drug '100% effective' in monkey trials
Scientists say ZMapp "offers the best option" for treating deadly virus, which is raging in five West African nations.
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Ebola outbreak reaches Senegal, riots break out in Guinea
The West African state of Senegal became the fifth country to be hit by the world's worst Ebola outbreak on Friday, while riots broke out in neighboring Guinea's remote southeast where infection rates are rising fast.
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Experimental Drug Would Help Fight Ebola if Supply Increases, Study Finds
A new study provides strong evidence that the experimental drug given to two American aid workers stricken with Ebola in Africa really works and could make a difference in the current outbreak — if more of it could be produced.
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Ebola - What You're Not Being Told? Good information to know.
There is something very, very important that the corporate media and public health officials are not telling you regarding the Ebola outbreak in west Africa.
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Sweden 'investigates' possible Ebola case
Reports say hospital in Swedish capital is treating in isolation unit a man who travelled to a "risk area".
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Fresh Ebola fears as death toll surpasses 1,900
An ill doctor in southern Nigeria exposed dozens of people to the Ebola virus by continuing to treat patients before his death, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday as it announced the toll across West Africa had surged above 1,900 fatalities.
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U.N. says $600 million needed to tackle Ebola as deaths top 1,900
The United Nations said $600 million in supplies would be needed to fight West Africa's Ebola outbreak, as the death toll from the worst ever epidemic of the virus topped 1,900 and Guinea warned it had penetrated a new part of the country.
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Ebola doctor dies in Sierra Leone
Another doctor has died from the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone. He had contracted the disease while treating infected patients. More than 20 health workers have so far lost their lives to the virus in that country.
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Ebola Crisis: Suspected Victim on Kenya Airways Flight from Ghana
The Kenyan port health services have been notified by World Health Organisation of a Kenya Airways passenger with the suspected Ebola virus.
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Many in West Africa May Be Immune to Ebola Virus
Although few medical experts realize it, part of the population in West Africa is immune to the Ebola virus, according to virologists who specialize in the disease. Assuming they are correct, and if those people can be identified, they could be a great help in fighting the outbreak. Immune persons could safely tend the sick and bury the dead just as smallpox survivors did in the centuries before smallpox vaccine.
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Sierra Leone to Impose 3-Day Ebola Quarantine
With West African governments increasingly desperate to contain an ever-quickening Ebola epidemic, Sierra Leone has decreed a stringent new measure confining residents to their homes later this month.
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Gates Foundation commits $50 million to fight Ebola in West Africa
With Ebola's spread reaching a crisis stage in West Africa, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it is committing $50 million to support the emergency response.
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Largest Liberian Newspaper: US Government Manufactured Ebola, AIDS Virus
The largest newspaper in Liberia published a conspiracy theory accusing the United States of intentionally engineering the Ebola and AIDS viruses in bioterrorism research labs and infecting Africans with the virus through vaccinations.
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Why a Massive International Effort Has Failed to Contain the Ebola Epidemic
Traveling to Meliandou, a remote Guinean village and the likely home of Patient Zero, Jeffrey E. Stern tracks the virus’s path.
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