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As many as 18,000 nurses have walked off the job and are picketing in front of Northern California Kaiser Permanente facilities. Nurses claim that the company has failed to adopt optimal safeguards for Ebola. (Nov. 11)
As many as 18,000 nurses went on strike Tuesday and picketed in front of Kaiser Permanente facilities in Northern California to express their concerns about patient-care standards and Ebola.
The nurses, who are in the midst of contract...
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World Bank Pres. Kim pledges millions of dollars to support country's post-Ebola recovery plan
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim visited Liberia on Tuesday, pledging financial support to help the Liberian economy recover from the Ebola epidemic.
Kim said the World Bank was focused on rebuilding Liberia's agricultural economy by...
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Ebola treatment centre opens outside the capital Freetown
An Ebola treatment centre, built by the British army and Sierra Leonean construction workers, opened outside the capital, Freetown this week.
The centre in Kerry Town includes an 80-bed facility to be managed by Save the Children and a...
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Virologist and Ebola expert at Britain's University of Reading explains the virus
The current outbreak of Ebola is extremely serious and it will take a lot of time and money to contain it, an expert on the disease said Wednesday.
Dr Ben Neuman, a virologist at the University of Reading in the UK, said the outbreak of...
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says there are encouraging signs of progress against Ebola in West Africa, and he says the U.S. military can take some credit for containing it. But he said it's too soon to say when the mission will be finished. (Nov. 17)
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says there are encouraging signs of progress against the Ebola virus in West Africa, and he says the U.S. military can take some credit for containing it.
Hagel...
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Liberian president opens 200-bed treatment centre built by WFP with USAID
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf opened a 200-bed Ebola treatment centre in Monrovia on Friday.
The facility, one of the largest in the country and run by Cuban doctors, was built with materials provided by the World Food...
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Nigerian FM says he's optimistic about release of kidnapped girls; comments on Ebola
Nigeria is "cautiously optimistic" that hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by extremists will be returned "in the very near future", Foreign Minister Aminu Bashir Wali said on Tuesday.
The militant group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300...
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Look at screening operation as Air Maroc keeps flying to affected nations
As airlines across the world cancelled their flights out of Ebola-hit African countries, the Moroccan national carrier, Royal Air Maroc, has kept its planes flying.
Despite the risks, Royal Air Maroc executive Ilham Kazzini said the...
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Official claims virus is worse than rebel war; road blocks to test infected
A regional coordinator for the fight against the Ebola virus claimed the disease was worse than a "rebel war."
Ayoub Ishmeal, regional coordinator for the fight against Ebola, said on Sunday that unlike gunshots you can not run away from...
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WHO presser on fears that disease may return
1. Exterior of WHO (World Health Organisation )office in Beijing
2. Henk Bekedam walking to his desk, sitting down
3. Close up on WHO flag on his desk
4. Bekedam leafing though papers
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Henk Bekedam, World Health...
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Heightened food security and medical checks adds to worries about spread of ebola
The Ebola virus that has already killed hundreds of people across Sierra Leone is now threatening the lives of thousands more as food shortages continue.
In the capital Freetown, the economy is slowing as fears over Ebola - real and...
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Progress report as US begins to ramp up its efforts to help combat Ebola outbreak
Officials leading the United States assistance effort in Liberia said on Thursday that their teams were racing to meet patients' needs as Liberia, the country hardest-hit by the Ebola outbreak, cordoned off areas of its capital at one...
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The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday he's encouraged by a $5.4 billion spending plan proposed by Congress to fight Ebola, although he says the epidemic may not be put 'back in the box.' (Dec. 10)
The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday he's encouraged by a $5.4 billion spending plan proposed by Congress to fight Ebola.
Although, CDC Director Tom Frieden said it's unclear if "the world's...
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Stigma of Ebola causing people not to report cases and encouraging spread of the disease
Despite the massive awareness campaign and government measures taken since the start of the deadly Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, some families are still harbouring sick people in their houses, burying dead bodies without assistance and...
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Widow of Ebola victim talks to the AP about the death of her husband
The American widow of a Liberian government official who died after contracting Ebola spoke on Tuesday about her husband's death and her efforts to highlight the dangers of the virus.
Decontee Sawyer, speaking from her home in Coon...
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Guinea closes SLeone border; SLeone educate residents about ebola during lockdown
Guinean health officials staffing the border with Sierra Leone said on Friday that many people have crossed over into their country without going through health controls.
In the days leading up to Sierra Leone's three day lockdown,...
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Director of helpline centre set up to inform the public about the disease comments
A doctor in Nigeria who started a helpline to provide information about Ebola says he hopes to alert as many people as possible about the deadly disease.
Lawal Bakare has recruited a group of volunteers to provide advice to people at...
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WHO says it is ethical to use unproven drugs in fight against outbreak in West Africa
The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the use of unproven anti-Ebola drugs in West Africa "ethical" on Tuesday, as long as the provision met certain criteria.
After holding a teleconference with medical experts around the world,...
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Primate care experts, veterinarians, and researchers are gathering at Zoo Atlanta for the International Gorilla Workshop. More than 160 experts are expected to attend to discuss challenges facing gorillas living in zoos and in the wild. (June 11)
Primate care experts, veterinarians, researchers and more are gathering at Zoo Atlanta for the International Gorilla Workshop.
Zoo spokeswoman Keisha Hines says more than 160 experts are expected to gather at the zoo this week to discuss...
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An Atlanta woman is trying to raise awareness about the Ebola outbreak, which is affecting her hometown in Sierra Leone. (Aug. 8)
An Atlanta woman is trying to raise awareness about the Ebola outbreak that is affecting her hometown in Sierra Leone.
Sidiratu Mansaray moved to Atlanta three years ago from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Now that the Ebola virus is ravaging...
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President Barack Obama says he's cautiously more optimistic about the Ebola situation in the U.S and the prospect of an Ebola outbreak in the country is 'extremely low.' (Oct. 22)
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President Barack Obama says he's cautiously more optimistic about the Ebola situation in the U.S.
Obama notes that relatives of the only person to die of Ebola in the U.S. have been freed...
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At least 3,700 children in West Africa have lost one or both parents to Ebola since the outbreak began this summer, according to UNICEF estimates. AP followed three siblings orphaned in Monrovia, struggling to get by and to stay together. (Oct. 9)
FRIGHTENED NEIGHBORS have kept their children away... SOME EVEN TAKE LONGER ROUTES TO THE WELL TO AVOID PASSING BY THEIR HOME.
SOUNDBITE: (Liberian English) Promise Cooper, Orphaned by Ebola
"If I go somewhere they spray the chair, they...
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Officials in the Washington area showed off Ebola response measures being taken at Dulles International Airport and the National Institutes of Health. (Oct. 31)
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SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) Marty Cetron / CDC Division of Global Migration and Quarantine
"What you see is in primary, the idea is to find the people that are having exposure in the three...
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USA: DEADLY EBOLA VIRUS CONFIRMED IN CENTRAL AFRICA
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The World Health Organization has confirmed the deadly Ebola virus is to blame for scores of deaths in central Zaire, as an aid group said the death toll has reached 170.
The W-H-O is also investigating a possible second...