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West Africa: WHO Says Emergency Response to Ebola Underway
Leadership, 5 April 2016
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and Ministry of Health teams in Liberia and Guinea are investigating the origins of transmission in case of Ebola. Read more »
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Liberia: How Come Ebola Again?
New Republic, 5 April 2016
LIBERIANS ARE ONCE more in the throes of another agonizing plague of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), an infectious disease with the ability to decimate its victims in a twinkling of… Read more »
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Liberia: Ebola Split
New Republic, 5 April 2016
With warning from health authorities for Liberians to remain calm in the wake of a confirmed Ebola death, fear is reportedly flaring up again following the confirmation of a new… Read more »
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Liberia: WHO Confirms New Ebola Case in Liberia
DW, 1 April 2016
The deadly virus has once again emerged in Liberia, the country hardest hit by the most recent outbreak. The latest case comes amid a new flare-up in Guinea, where over a thousand… Read more »
WHO Tackles Latest Ebola Flare-ups in Guinea and Liberia
Authorities have learned that a woman who died of Ebola in Liberia last week had recently traveled from Guinea with her three young children.
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West Africa: Guinea Ebola Death Rises 7
NEWS, 1 April 2016
A resurgence of Ebola in a rural Guinean community has killed seven people, health officials said Wednesday, even as the World Health Organization voiced confidence that remaining… Read more »
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Liberia: Chal Wants Border Surveillance Increased
New Republic, 29 March 2016
The Executive Director of the Christian Health Association of Liberia (CHAL), Patricia Kamara has stressed the need for security personnel and health workers at various borders to… Read more »
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Liberia: Liberia Closes Borders With Guinea Over Ebola Fears
New Dawn, 22 March 2016
Liberia's borders with neighboring Guinea have, again, been ordered closed with immediate effect. The Government of Liberia, through its Minister of Information, Lenn Eugene Nagbe,… Read more »
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West Africa: West Africa Vulnerable to New Major Ebola Outbreak As Vigilance Fades
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 21 March 2016
The three West African nations ravaged by Ebola could struggle to prevent another major outbreak as vigilance fades among health workers and the public, a health expert said on… Read more »
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Africa: Key Facts About Ebola Epidemic Two Years After It Was First Declared
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 21 March 2016
Two years after the world's worst known outbreak of Ebola was first identified, West Africa is still experiencing small flare-ups, the most recent in Guinea. Read more »
InFocus
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Liberia has said the closure is a precaution to prevent spread of the disease and that the border will remain closed until the situation in Guinea improves. Read more »
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Plummeting world commodity prices followed by a completely unanticipated outbreak of Ebola brought the country's economy to a near-standstill. In an AllAfrica interview last month ... Read more »
