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West Africa: Ebola Response - Is the World Too Late?
DW, 27 January 2015
The number of Ebola infections is steadily decreasing. But the crisis in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone is not over. The global community is now planning ways to avert future… Read more »
Ebola Response - Is the World Too Late?
As the world commits to finding a vaccine that will help stem the spread of the Ebola epidemic, there are concerns that with fewer new infections, this response is coming a little too late.
An MSF health team carrying a suspected Ebola patient from a remote hamlet (file photo).
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West Africa: Ebola - Why Are We Blaming the Victims?
UNIRIN, 29 January 2015
"African culture" - cute if you're a tourist, catastrophic when you want to put a lid on Ebola, or so some international health experts and media coverage of the outbreak would… Read more »
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Liberia: Harvard Scientist Claims Selenium Can Treat Ebola
FrontPageAfrica, 29 January 2015
In an article just published in the British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research, Harvard University researcher Dr Boguslaw Lipinski claims that selenium can treat Ebola virus… Read more »
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Sierra Leone: How to Win the Ebola War
Concord, 27 January 2015
When the first positive case of Ebola was reported in Sierra Leone some seven months ago, it was terrifying for everybody. Sierra Leoneans were afraid it could be transmitted by… Read more »
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Liberia: UN On Ebola Surveillance
NEWS, 28 January 2015
Representatives of the Governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire yesterday began meeting in Freetown, under the umbrella of the Mano River Union, a… Read more »
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Liberia: U.S. Officials Gain Insight Into Ebola Response
New Dawn, 28 January 2015
Donations from U.S. private-sector foundations, companies, and individuals have been vital to the response that is helping to bring the Ebola outbreak under control in Liberia. Read more »
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West Africa: Ebolanomics - the Search for a Vaccine
UNIRIN, 27 January 2015
When Ebola hit West Africa last year, it was a disease with no sign of a vaccine or cure. To those affected that may have been an indication that the wider world didn't care about… Read more »
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West Africa: Dr. Tom Frieden - 'We Can't Let Ebola Get Away This Time'
Ebola Deeply, 26 January 2015
Ebola Deeply co-founder Lara Setrakian sat down with Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to discuss the race to zero cases, the… Read more »
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Liberia: Ebola Vaccine Study Coming to Liberia
NEWS, 27 January 2015
Studies of two possible Ebola vaccines are set to begin in West Africa, first in Liberia and later in other countries in the region in about two weeks. Read more »
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Africa: Oxfam Calls for Massive Post-Ebola Marshall Plan
Oxfam, 26 January 2015
International agency Oxfam today called for a multi-million dollar post-Ebola 'Marshall Plan' to put the three West Africa countries hit by the crisis back on their feet. The… Read more »
InFocus
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Jimmy Yeanie Bangura, popularly known as Jimmy B, joins the lists of musicians in West Africa spreading messages to get people to take personal action in order to end Ebola. Read more »
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Researchers are scrambling to find a cure for the deadly Ebola virus as the lastest outbreak in West Africa continues to claim the lives of thousands. Read more »
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As rates of Ebola infection fall in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, planning has begun on how to rebuild public health systems and learn lessons from the outbreak. Read more »
