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Police vehicles escort the ambulance carrying Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon working in Sierra Leone who had been diagnosed with Ebola
(photo: AP / Nati Harnik)
Ebola patient who died had received ZMapp late in his treatment
The Los Angeles Times
A frantic, 36-hour effort to save the life of Dr. Martin Salia at the Nebraska Medical Center included a rare dose of the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp, hospital officials disclosed Monday. | The 44-year-old surgeon contracted the virus while treating patients in Sierra Leone and arrived in Omaha on...
Prosecutor: Texas inmate faked Ebola report
The Miami Herald
Prosecutors in South Texas plan to charge an inmate who they say caused an approximately five-hour lockdown at a county jail after claiming to have come into contact with the Ebola virus. | Nueces County District Attorney Mark Skurka told The Corpus ...
Prosecutor: Texas inmate faked Ebola report
Austin American Statesman
Prosecutors in South Texas plan to charge an inmate who they say caused an approximately five-hour lockdown at a county jail after claiming to have come into contact with the Ebola virus. | Nueces County District Attorney Mark Skurka told The Corpus ...
International Football Stars Unite In The Fight Against Ebola
Peace FM Online
World’s top footballers have joined forces with global health experts to help raise awareness in the fight against the Ebola outbreak that has claimed over 5,000 lives. | In a new campaign “11 Against Ebola”, players from some of Europe’s biggest clu...
Treatment was delayed for surgeon who died of Ebola in Nebraska
Penn Live
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone did not receive aggressive treatment until nearly two weeks after he first started showing symptoms — a delay that doctors said probably made it impossible for a...
a health worker sprays disinfectant near a mosque, after the body of a man suspected of dying from the Ebola virus was washed inside before being berried in Bamako, Mali.
AP / Baba Ahmed
Mali on high alert for Ebola
The Japan News
The Associated PressBAMAKO (AP) — It all started with a sick nurse, whose positive test for Ebola came only after her death. In a busy clinic that treats Mali’s elite as well a...
German, Dutch and British bird flu outbreaks could be linked
WN / Ahmed Deeb
German, Dutch and British bird flu outbreaks ‘could be linked’
South China Morning Post
Bird flu outbreaks in the past two weeks in Germany, the Netherlands and Britain could be linked as the virus is most often transmitted through wild birds, the head of the World An...
British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland
AP / Anja Niedringhaus
G20 summit: David Cameron has pledged £1.34m to fight Ebola in West Africa
The Independent
David Cameron has pledged a further £1.34m of funding into researching Ebola to speed up the international response to the crisis in West Africa. | Together with the Wellcome Trus...
Fresh meat is held by a string and dropped on swimming crocodiles.
WN / RTayco
On safari in Kenya, safe from Ebola and reveling in nature's splendor
The Los Angeles Times
As we drove away from our luxurious tented camp and turned toward the river, we spied yet another creature — in a trip that had been full of them — that took our breath...
ebraska Medical Center is Omaha, Neb. Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon working in Sierra Leone who has been diagnosed with Ebola, is expected to be flown Saturday to the medical center's biocontainment unit for treatment
AP / Nati Harnik
Sierra Leone doctor with Ebola headed to U.S. is critically ill
Reuters
FREETOWN (Reuters) - A Sierra Leone surgeon with Ebola being flown to the United States for treatment is critically ill, possibly sicker than other patients treated in the U.S., th...
David Tam-Baryoh stands at the entrance of the Criminal Investigation department (CID) in Freetown, after been released from detention.
WN / John Sahid
Sierra Leone frees journalist detained over Ebola criticism
Reuters
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Authorities in Sierra Leone have freed a journalist arrested 11 days ago for making supposedly disparaging comments about the country's effort to fight Ebola. ...
File - Health workers transport the body of a person suspected to have died of the Ebola virus in Port Loko Community, situated on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. After emerging months ago in eastern Sierra Leone, Ebola is now hitting the
AP / Michael Duff
Ebola shuts down signs of normal life in Sierra Leone
BBC News
So, the number of people who have known to have died of Ebola in the current outbreak in west Africa has passed 5,000. But what does that mean for the affected communities? | I bri...
EU Ebola and Sierra Leone
WN / John Sahid
Sierra Leone News: EU Ebola Commissioner says …We must not allow fear to dictate our actions
Awoko
EU Ebola Coordinator and Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, Christos Stylianides says Sierra Leoneans must not allow fear to dictate their actions in the fight against Ebola. | He made...
Ebola in Liberia
AP / Abbas Dulleh
World Bank warns of calamity if Ebola lessons ignored
Business Day
Related articles | Ebola shows the vital role governments should play | BRISBANE — Millions of lives could be lost in a global pandemic if the international community repeats its...
In this photo taken Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, health workers wearing protective clothing and equipment against the deadly Ebola virus sit at the Kenema Government Hospital situated in the Eastern Province around 300 km, (186 miles) from the capital city of Freetown in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Over the decades, Ebola cases have been confirmed in 10 African countries, including Congo where the disease was first reported in 1976. But until this year, Ebola had never come to West Africa.
AP / Michael Duff
Doctor Infected With Ebola to Be Flown to US
Voa News
Kim Lewis | A U.S. permanent resident who contracted Ebola while working as a surgeon in Sierra Leone reportedly will be flown to the United States on Saturday to receive treatment...
Sierra Leone Ebola survivor
WN / John Sahid
Sierra Leone News : Minister Launches Ebola Survivors’ Registration in Makeni
Awareness Times
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, Hon. Alhaji Moijueh Kaikai on Saturday 8th November, 2014 officially launched the Ebola Survivor Registration in...
Liberia Girls
Creative Commons / John Atherton
Ebola Could Cause Girls In Liberia To Fall 'Way, Way Back' In School
Huffington Post
The implications of Ebola go far beyond West Africans' physical health -- the outbreak has made it increasingly difficult to keep young people in school, for one. And officials say...
Health workers, attend to patients that contracted the Ebola virus, at a clinic in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014.
AP / Abbas Dulleh
Ebola outbreak: MSF to start West Africa clinical trials
BBC News
The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has said it will host clinical trials of new treatments for Ebola at three centres in West Africa. | Medical staff will use two drugs from a Wo...
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Health workers in protective suits transport Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon working in Sierra Leone who had been diagnosed with Ebola Nebraska hospital: Surgeon with Ebola has died
Tampa Bay Online
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone died Monday while being treated in a biocontainment unit at a Nebraska ho... (photo: AP / Nati Harnik)
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Times Union
TORONTO (AP) — Canada has joined Australia in suspending entry visas for people from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa in an attempt to keep t... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
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