Showing posts with label Ebola Virus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ebola Virus. Show all posts
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Sierra Leone orders three-day lockdown against Ebola

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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone's President Ernest Koroma ordered the country's entire population Saturday to stay in their...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Jennifer Lawrence, ‘Hunger Games’ stars team up in Ebola video

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LOS ANGELES | Jennifer Lawrence says she’d be fine if she got Ebola, in a video that encourages Americans to focus more on West Africans ...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Sierra Leone declares 5-day Ebola lockdown in north

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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Sierra Leone's government has declared a five-day lockdown in the country's north to step up efforts to...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

US allows temporary protected status for people coming from Ebola-hit nations

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WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security will grant temporary protected status to people from the three West African countries...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

New York health officials test person's remains for Ebola

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New York City health officials said they will test the remains of a person who died of an apparent heart attack on Tuesday for Ebola as t...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Ebola vaccine trials to start in Switzerland this week

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GENEVA - Ebola vaccine trials are set to start in Switzerland this week after receiving the green light from the country's authoritie...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Obama urges people to be guided by facts, avoid Ebola hysteria in weekly address

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MOSCOW - In his weekly address on Saturday, US President Obama re-emphasized following his last week's address that Ebola-panic shoul...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Some US hospitals weigh withholding care to Ebola patients

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CHICAGO/NEW YORK - The Ebola crisis is forcing the American healthcare system to consider the previously unthinkable: withholding some me...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

EU summit tackles climate change, Ebola

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BRUSSELS - European Union leaders meet at a summit in Brussels Thursday aimed at clinching a high-stakes deal on combating climate change...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

US to be 'more aggressive' in monitoring Ebola response: Obama

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WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday pledged a "much more aggressive" response at home to the Ebola threat, and ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Obama sends 3,000 troops to W. Africa to 'turn tide' on Ebola

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WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will try to "turn the tide" on the Ebola epidemic Tuesday by ordering 3,000 US military ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Guinea detects Ebola in new region as US warns outbreak out of control

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CONAKRY/DAKAR - Guinea's government said on Wednesday that Ebola had spread to a previously unaffected region of the country, as US e...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

GSK Ebola vaccine fast-tracked into U.S., UK and African trials

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An experimental Ebola vaccine from GlaxoSmithKlineis being fast-tracked into human studies and the company plans to build up a stockpile ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

West Africa Ebola death toll rises above 1,200; Liberia fights to halt spread of virus

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MONROVIA/GENEVA - Liberia battled on Tuesday to halt the spread of the Ebola disease in its crowded, run-down oceanside capital Monrovia,...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Death toll from Ebola in W. Africa hits 887: WHO

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ABUJA, Nigeria — The doctor who treated a man who flew to Nigeria and died of Ebola now has contracted the disease, authorities said Mond...
Friday, August 1, 2014

How to protect yourself from Ebola virus

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WASHINGTON - West Africa is grappling with the largest outbreak of Ebola virus in history, and concerns are mounting that the hemorrhagic...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

W. Africa's Ebola outbreak still manageable -- WHO

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GENEVA – The World Health Organization on Friday denied the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa is already out of control. "The si...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Number of Ebola cases in Guinea rises to 134; death toll at 84

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CONAKRY -- Guinea's health authorities have said four new Ebola cases have been reported in the country, bringing the total number of...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Canada reports possible Ebola case

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MONTREAL -- A man returning to Canada from Liberia is seriously ill in hospital after experiencing symptoms consistent with the Ebola vir...