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Crucial Test of Ebola Vaccine in Congo
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IN AREAS OF CONGO THAT ARE CONSIDERED GROUND ZERO IN THE FIGHT AGAINST EBOLA, AN EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE HAS BEEN DISPATCHED TO THE FRONT LINES.
TO TRY TO COMBAT THE OUTBREAK FROM THE ONSET.
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CLEAN : FILE: DR Congo ex-Health Minister formally charged and placed under house arrest
The former Congolese Minister for Health Oly Ilunga has been formally charged for alleged embezzlement of funds allocated to the fight against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and placed under house arrest his lawyer told AFP...
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Over 800,000 Congolese Children To Receive Measles Vaccine
The country's government and the WHO plan to vaccinate nearly 825,000 children under 5-years-old.
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Study results suggest 2 Ebola drugs saving lives
Two Ebola patients who were treated with new drugs in the city of Goma in eastern Congo have been declared "cured" and returned to their home.
Bloomberg
Sierra Leone President Focused on Ending Corruption, Seeking Investors
Mar.12 -- Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone, says his administration is working on lowering inflation, seeking foreign investors and ending corruption. He spoke exclusively with Bloomberg's Mike McKee.
Sky News
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the world's newest official public health emergency...
VOICED: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the world's newest official public health emergency -- almost 17 hundred people have died.It's the starkest reminder of the threat posed by Ebola -- the sight of a young...
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Global Aid Group Says It Is Facing Vaccination Roadblocks in Congo
Doctors Without Borders says it is struggling to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of people.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Liberia draws from Ebola experience in new fight against COVID-19
Liberia is using its insights in overcoming the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak to tackle a new villain: COVID-19. Authorities quickly reopened five Ebola-era intensive care units spread across the country after detecting the first case in...
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CLEAN : Nurse says COVID-19 outbreak in New York is "very similar" to Ebola in West Africa
Martha Phillips, an American nurse, went to West Africa during the Ebola crisis in 2014, to provide medical care. She moved to New York a month ago to help patients with COVID-19, and says both outbreaks "feel very similar (Footage by...
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WHO comment on experts meeting to discuss virus
The World Health Organization convened a group of experts on Tuesday to fast-track promising tests, drugs and vaccines to combat the virus that's spread from China to two dozen other countries.
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FDA Approves First Ebola Treatment
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals got approval for the antibody mixture after it was tested on 382 children and adults.
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CLEAN : Transporting the coffin of a suspected Ebola victim in Uganda
Ugandan officials transport the body of a person suspected of dying from Ebola victim (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Texas health officials have ordered four close family members of the Ebola patient in Dallas to stay in their home, and they've posted law enforcement outside to be sure. (Oct. 2)
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Texas health officials have ordered four close family members of the Ebola patient in Dallas to stay in their home, and they've posted law enforcement outside to be sure.
Federal and Texas...
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The father of an NBC freelance journalist spoke to the Associated Press about his son's sense of pride for working in Liberia in the midst of a deadly Ebola epidemic. (Oct. 3)
The journalist diagnosed with Ebola in Liberia will be treated in Nebraska.
Ashoka Mukpo's father, Dr. Mitchell Levy, told The Associated Press on Friday that his son is scheduled to leave the capital of Monrovia on Sunday evening and...
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World Bank president in Sierra Leone; USAID chief meets Liberian president
Officials in Liberia and Sierra Leone on Wednesday renewed their commitment to battling the Ebola epidemic and eventually achieving a "zero cases" goal.
US officials in Monrovia said progress had been made but warned that health workers...
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President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday that his administration would respond in a "much more aggressive way" to cases of Ebola in the United State . (Oct. 15)
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President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday that his administration would respond in a "much more aggressive way" to cases of Ebola in the United States and warned that in an age of frequent...
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Obama meets with National Security team on Ebola situation
US President Barack Obama said on Monday that some countries are not doing enough to confront the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
He said that the international community has not been as aggressive as it needs to be to help contain what...
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CDC Director Tom Frieden was grilled by lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday on wide-ranging topics related to the agency's management of Ebola, including giving a Dallas nurse permission to fly to Cleveland. (Oct. 16)
CDC Director Tom Frieden testified on Capitol Hill Thursday, answering tough questions from lawmakers about the Center's management of the Ebola cases in the U.S.
Frieden said nurse Amber Joy Vinson never should have been allowed to fly...
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Bill Gates says foundation will boost funding to malaria programme, comments on Ebola
Philanthropist Bill Gates said on Sunday he wanted to end malaria in his lifetime and would give more money towards that goal, part of his broader fight against tropical diseases that are getting unusual public attention because of the...
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Medical volunteers receive trial ebola vaccine
A hospital in Switzerland on Tuesday began trialling an experimental Ebola vaccine developed by the UK drugmaker, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
120 healthy volunteers are taking part in the first phase of the trial at the University Hospital of...
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Conference looks at how technology could help stop spread of Ebola
Experts have gathered in Egypt to discuss what role technology can play in helping limit the spread of Ebola.
More than six thousand people have died and another 18,000 people have been infected with the disease.
Using technology to...
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White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest reaffirmed the administration's confidence in the CDC's ability to keep the Ebola virus from spreading. (Oct. 1)
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest reaffirmed the administrations confidence in the CDC's ability to keep the Ebola virus from spreading.
"These are the experts they have a keen understanding of how to prevent the spread of this...
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Doctors and nurses at a major hospital near New York's Kennedy International Airport say they're prepared for Ebola -- but they haven't seen any cases. (Oct. 14)
Doctors and nurses at a major hospital near New York's Kennedy International Airport say they're prepared for Ebola -- but they haven't seen any cases.
Officials at New York Hospital Queens said at a news conference Tuesday they've been...