Ebola an 'International Health Emergency' - WHO

After convening a committee to assess the severity of the ongoing epidemic in West Africa, the World Health Organization has called "on all countries with Ebola transmission to declare a national emergency".

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  • Senegal:   One Ebola Suspect in Senegal

    The Point, 11 August 2014

    Over the weekend, Doctor Sene, chief medical doctor of Matam hospital in the northern part of Senegal, told the private television station TFM that a patient suspected to have… Read more »

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A government health worker in the MOH-led Kenema Ebola Treatment Centre in Sierra Leone attends to a victim. July 2014.

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