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Early Ransmission Dynamics Of Ebola Virus Disese (EVD), West Africa
The effective reproduction number, Rt, of Ebola virus disease was estimated using country-specific data reported from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to the World Health Organization from March to August, 2014. Rt for the three countries lies consistently above 1.0 since June 2014. Country-specific Rt for Liberia and Sierra Leone have lied between 1.0 and 2.0. Rt<2 indicate that control could be attained by preventing over half of the secondary transmissions per primary case.
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Allen, Microsoft Co-Founder donating $9 million for Ebola Battle
A familiar source stated, the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, Paul Allen's charitable foundation have announced that he is going to donate $9 million
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As Ebola cases accelerate, Liberia’s sick must fend for themselves.
Steps from a chance at salvation, or at least a less excruciating death, Comfort Zeyemoh walked slowly from the Ebola treatment center on Saturday. It was one of only three in a city devastated by the lethal virus. And it was nearly full.
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Rampant Ebola fear takes toll on Africa tourism
Ebola is thousands of miles away from Kenya's pristine Indian Ocean beaches, but the deadly disease appears to be discouraging tourism there and elsewhere in this vast continent. Harald Kampa, a hotelier near Mombasa, says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is hurting his business.
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Ebola outbreak: Barack Obama 'to pledge US troops to fight virus'
US President Barack Obama is to announce plans on Tuesday to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to help fight the Ebola virus, US officials say. It is understood the US military will oversee building new treatment centres and help train medical staff. There has been criticism of the slow international response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
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Could Ebola Become Airborne?
Although one expert has voiced concern that the Ebola virus could gain the ability to spread through the air, others say this scenario is extremely unlikely.
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Fact or Fiction?: The Ebola Virus Will Go Airborne
Why do some viruses go airborne? Will the pathogen causing the west African outbreak be one of them?
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Sierra Leone starts nationwide lockdown to stop spread of Ebola
Sierra Leone starts a three-day nationwide lockdown Friday in an effort to halt an Ebola outbreak that has left thousands dead in the region. Under the plan, no one will be allowed to leave their homes for three days, allowing volunteers to go door-to-door educating people on the deadly virus.
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Ebola patients buying survivors' blood from black market, WHO warns
As hospitals in nations hardest hit by Ebola struggle to keep up, desperate patients are turning to the black market to buy blood from survivors of the virus, the World Health Organization warned. The deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has killed at least 2,400 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- the countries most affected by the virus.
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Man Bitten by Ebola Patient Flown to Switzerland
Swiss authorities say a male nurse who was bitten by an Ebola patient while working in West Africa has been flown to Switzerland as a precaution. The health ministry says the unidentified man was working for an international organization in Sierra Leone when he was bitten by a child infected with Ebola on Saturday.
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4Chan’s latest, terrible ‘prank’: Convincing West Africans that Ebola doctors actually worship the disease
The message-board 4chan has been rightly blamed for many unsavory Internet things: the celebrity nude scandal, the dangerous “bikini bridge” meme, the brief virality of the self-harm hashtag #cuttingforBieber.
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Ebola’s spread brings host of other diseases in its wake
Almost 3,000 West Africans have died from the current outbreak of Ebola virus, and on Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that by January between 550,000 and 1.4 million people could be infected if nothing is done.
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Doctor treats Ebola with HIV drug in Liberia - seemingly successfully
A doctor in rural Liberia inundated with Ebola patients says he's had good results with a treatment he tried out of sheer desperation: an HIV drug. Dr. Gobee Logan has given the drug, lamivudine, to 15 Ebola patients, and all but two survived. That's a 7% mortality rate. Across West Africa, the virus has killed 70% of its victims.
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Woman saves three relatives from Ebola
It can be exhausting nursing a child through a nasty bout with the flu, so imagine how 22-year-old Fatu Kekula felt nursing her entire family through Ebola. Her father. Her mother. Her sister. Her cousin. Fatu took care of them all, single-handedly feeding them, cleaning them and giving them medications.
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First Ebola case diagnosed on US soil
First case of Ebola virus diagnosed on US soil by officials in Dallas, TX. According to BBC UK.
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First Ebola case diagnosed in the United States: CDC
U.S. health officials said on Tuesday the first patient infected with the deadly Ebola virus had been diagnosed in the country, in a new sign of how the outbreak ravaging West Africa can spread globally.
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Dallas Ebola patient vomited outside apartment on way to hospital
Two days after he was sent home from a Dallas hospital, the man who is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex as he was bundled into an ambulance.
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Ebola survivor II, Nancy Writebol: 'We just don't even have a clue what happened'
Ebola nearly killed Nancy Writebol in July—and it also made her famous, which helped broadcast to the world that it needed to respond more aggressively to what had grown from a small outbreak into an out-of-control epidemic.
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50 in Texas being monitored for Ebola symptoms
Fifty people in Texas will be monitored daily for possible Ebola symptoms, including 10 who are considered at high risk because of their exposure to a patient now being treated for the deadly virus, public health officials said Friday.
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Ebola: Can big data or semantic text help?
Article looks at whether big data analytics or the latest semantic meaning systems could help in the fight against Ebola.
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