- Reuters: Ebola toll climbs, fueled by spread in Sierra Leone: WHO 5 hours ago
"Sierra Leone, a former British colony, reported 397 new confirmed cases in the week to Dec. 7, three times the combined total in the other two centers of the disease, Guinea and Liberia, the U.N. health agency said in …"
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- CNN: Worst Ebola outbreak in history: What you need to know By Richard allen 2 hours ago
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday offered liability protections to drugmakers rushing to develop Ebola vaccines and urged other countries to follow suit. Health and Human Services (HHS) …"
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- E TN Global TravelInd.News: US Congress must view Ebola threat as a national security issue 1 hour ago
"WASHINGTON, DC - Several organizations today called on Congress (see letter) to designate funding directly to hospitals, as it is hospitals that are the front lines of the fight against Ebola. Infectious diseases and …"
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- amNY:Feds to reimburse Bellevue for Ebola treatment 1 hour ago
"The federal government will reimburse Bellevue Hospital Center for work it did to contain the Ebola virus in the city. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer announced Wednesday that part of the $5.4 billion in the Appropriations bill …"
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- DailyExpress: Bush meat trade is major Ebola risk to Scotland 3 minutes ago
"Professor Hugh Pennington said people importing monkey and fruit bat meat was a more likely way for the disease to come here than via an infected airline passenger. The emeritus professor of bacteriology at the …"
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- BoonvilleDailyNews: Liberian president: Help needed to stamp out Ebola 18 minutes ago
"WASHINGTON — Liberia is making progress against Ebola but stamping out the epidemic will be difficult, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told U.S. lawmakers Wednesday. In an unusual address by video to a Senate subcommittee, Sirleaf said about 10 …"
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- AllAfrica: West Africa: Regional Efforts Against Ebola Intensify 5 hours ago
"Delegates from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Cote D' Ivoire reported their various strategies in containing the virus which include, Epidemiological situation report, strategy for controlling EVD transmission, cross border strategy and ..."
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- DurhamHeraldSun: 2 UNC faculty to support Ebola research in Guinea 10 minutes ago
"Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty members have been cleared to travel to Guinea and other countries ... that he could not attend the conference because he was in West Africa. Fischer said collaborators from Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill ..."
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- AthensBanner-Herald: Georgia officials planning hospital network to treat Ebola 9 hours ago
"Public health epidemiologist Cherie Drenzek said 327 travelers from West Africa have been monitored by the Georgia agency. Currently, 96 travelers are being monitored, including 50 CDC employees. So far, no one screened under this program has been …"
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- DefenceWeb: US Marines finish two months of Ebola response support in West Africa 14 hours ago
"“This mission demonstrates the versatility, scalability and responsiveness of Special Purpose MAGTF Crisis Response - Africa,” said US Marine Corps Colonel Robert C. Fulford, SPMAGTF-CR-AF commanding …"
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- WaPo: ‘The Ebola fighters’ and the question, ‘What the hell am I doing here?’ 8 hours ago
"But the doctor felt compelled to travel to Sierra Leone, hopping on one of the dwindling ... all those hours spent in the lab and hospital back in the United States. Now, West Africa was gripped by the worst Ebola …"
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- BostonGlobe: Vecna tests Ebola technology in Monrovia 12 hours ago
"A Cambridge builder of health information systems is testing two medical technologies in West Africa that could help limit the transmission ... such as wounded soldiers from a battlefield. But BEAR did not travel to …"
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- StarTelegram: Deputy tests negative for Ebola; victim’s family wants investigation 5 hours ago
"Travelers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — the countries ... should serve as a reminder of the patients whom health workers are trying to save in West Africa. “We remember what a deadly enemy Ebola is,” …"
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- CNN: Woman who saved relatives from Ebola coming to U.S. for nursing school 4 hours ago By Jen Christensen
"International aid workers heard about her "trash bag method" and taught it to other West Africans who can't get ... books and her travel and visa so that she can travel between Africa and the United States. Kekula's …"
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- ABC KOTA Territory News: Woman saves three relatives from Ebola 3 hours ago
"International aid workers heard about her "trash bag method" and taught it to other West Africans who can't get ... books and her travel and visa so that she can travel between Africa and the United States. Kekula's …"
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- CophenhagenPost: Danish health personnel being deployed to fight Ebola 10 hours ago
"It's a big decision to go to west Africa to fight Ebola, but also a very important decision ... England on December 7 to join up with their Irish colleagues. Team 1 is scheduled to travel to Sierra Leone on December 17 …
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- GMANetwork: Ebola death toll climbs to 6,388 as Sierra Leone cases soar 13 minutes ago
"Nearly 6,400 people have now died from Ebola, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, amid a ballooning case load in Sierra Leone. The UN health agency reported 17,942 cases of the deadly virus across eight …"
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- ABCRadioAustralia: Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone hit by largely hidden outbreak; WHO says scores of bodies piled up 26 minutes ago
"Health officials in Sierra Leone fear a major Ebola outbreak may have gone largely unreported in a remote district where the World Health Organisation (WHO) says scores of bodies piled up in a hospital. The WHO said on Wednesday that it had sent a …"
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- NJToday: Test would quickly diagnose Ebola in remote locations 24 minutes ago
"Alland, the associate dean for Clinical Research at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, said the advent of bioterrorism has placed a new emphasis on the need for rapid diagnostic tests simple and accurate enough …"
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- USAID administrator Rajiv Shah may resign from the Obama administration 26 minutes ago
"Shah, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development who coordinated the United States’ international response to the Ebola crisis, is said to be leaving his post, and chatter has it that the...
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- USMagazine: Chris Brown Calls Himself "Young and Dumb" for Putting Karrueche Tran on Blast After Breakup 25 minutes ago
"So I AM APOLOGIZING I live in a glass house and the same s--t that makes me great also is my curse." Related: Chris Brown Thinks Ebola Is a Form of Population Control He ended by writing, "Everybody know I love that girl. I don't care how my image my …"
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